Values Quotes

Great people have great values and great ethics.

~ Jeffrey Gitomer

The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values.

~ Douglas Alexander

We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.

~ Peter Coyote

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

~ John Bolton

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

~ William Ralph Inge

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

~ Iain Duncan Smith

We need a Congress that understands the sanctity of life, the sanctity of traditional values, the sanctity of traditional marriage.

~ Thom Tillis

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

~ Tom Stoppard

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

~ Henri Matisse

It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal values in the politics of our country.

~ Charles Kennedy

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

~ Diane Abbott

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

~ Laura Esquivel

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.

~ Sherry Turkle

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

~ Laura Esquivel

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

~ Taylor Swift

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

~ Sandra Day O'connor

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

~ Alice Waters

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.

~ Bobby Orr

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

~ Ralph Ellison

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

~ Shiv Khera

It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India's 800 million Hindus?

~ Tulsi Gabbard

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

~ Tim Holden

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

~ John Mccain

There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.

~ Major Owens

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

~ Pankaj Mishra

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

~ Haruki Murakami

I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome immigrants.

~ Bruce Feiler

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche