Values Quotes

• There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Human
  • Morality
  • Divine

• Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

  

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky
  • Trying
  • Family
  • States

• Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people in our society was between those who have more and those who have less. Today, however, the difference is between those who know more and those who know less.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Age
  • Today

• You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Character
  • Game
  • Alone

• I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Moral

• Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Breakfast
  • Commendable
  • Art Writing

• I love that we are one of the least unionized states in the country...We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina...And we'll make the unions understand full well that they are not needed, not wanted, and not welcome.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Country
  • Conservative
  • Welcome

• I believe, the [Gunnar] Myrdal study had been made, and if we hadn't had anything else to raise questions, this in itself would have been something to provoke thought in the direction of the value of accommodating leadership.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Believe
  • Value
  • Study

• The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

  

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky
  • Moral
  • Values
  • Crisis

• The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Perspective
  • Values
  • Worst

• Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Family
  • Moral
  • Values

• Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country

  

  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
  • Country
  • Soldier
  • Historical

• Focus on executing to give maximum value to your customers. That means learning everything from financing to producing to marketing.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Giving
  • Focus
  • Marketing

• Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Genius
  • Disney
  • Alexander the Great

• When I explain our company values and the foundation to prospective employees, they realize that they have an opportunity to do much more than change the way businesses manage and share information. When you take a workforce of smart, creative, dedicated people and say "take this company time to serve your community, and bring along your coworkers, customers, and partners" great things happen.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Nobody values your time but YOU.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Values

• I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.

  

  Rita Moreno
  • Mom
  • Share
  • Grew

• You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Sound
  • Values
  • Retrospect

• Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Passion
  • Instinct
  • Savagery

• The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Value
  • Promise
  • Cost

• You just have to be opportunistic, and try to figure out what creates value.. where the bottom is, what creates incremental value, and in what combinations.

  

  John C. Malone
  • Trying
  • Opportunity
  • Bottom

• Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Values
  • Ruins
  • Good Taste

• First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Real
  • Judging
  • Creator

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