Values Quotes

• It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.

  

  Bette Ford
  • Change
  • Imagine
  • Values

• I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called 'middle class values' that are different from the values of other people in this country.

  

  Jon Kyl
  • Country
  • Class
  • Discussion

• Baseball's owners must be the only U.S. citizens whose parents never told them the story of the boy who cried wolf. Their perennial cry of evaporating profits and imminent catastrophe in the presence of of rapidly growing revenues and escalating franchise values is hard to take seriously.

  

  Andrew Zimbalist
  • Baseball
  • Values
  • Owners

• I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Important
  • Community

• The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.

  

  William Barclay
  • Way
  • Light
  • Ends

• I want to build a bridge to the 21st century in which we create a strong and growing economy to preserve the legacy of opportunity for the next generation by balancing our budget in a way that protects our values and ensuring that every family will be able to own and protect the value of their most important asset, their home.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Economy
  • Bridge
  • 21st Century

• We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Wisdom

• We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Action
  • Choices
  • Mood

• I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • World
  • Want

• I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.

  

  Sete Gibernau
  • World
  • Proud
  • Difficult

• The more you understand what somebody wants, needs, and fears, the more you can figure out how to add value.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Want
  • Needs
  • Figures

• Gold is not less but more rational than paper money. Money holds value so long as it is in limited supply; gold will always be in limited supply, and would require real resources to produce even from the sea; paper and printing ink are not in limited supply. The gold system is much closer to a modern automatic scientific control system than the crude and relatively unstable system of paper.

  

  William E. Rees
  • Gold
  • Modern
  • Rational

• Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.

  

  William Stringfellow
  • Moral
  • Ambiguity
  • Monetary

• At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of totalitarianism, Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Faith
  • Universe

• My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different values derived from different cultures and wouldn't agree on certain issues, they were good people, incredible people, and I loved and respected them.

  

  Harvey Pekar
  • Cultures
  • Parents' work
  • Certain issues

• A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Justice
  • Revolution
  • Policies

• In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • World
  • Moral
  • Facts

• Knowledge and know-how are the real sources of value and riches. You can learn anything you need to learn to achieve any goal you can set for yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Real
  • Knowledge
  • Value

• 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
  • Children
  • Citizens
  • Exposure

• The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

  

  Cecil Taylor
  • Life
  • Values
  • Issues

• The sex can stay dirty, but the values have to be clean.

  

  Erika Lust
  • Values
  • Dirty

• My job is to reaffirm the core vision and values that have made this company great and resolve the issues that have recently come to light.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Great
  • Job
  • Light

• Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.

  

  David Frawley
  • Live
  • Daily
  • Act

• I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • People
  • Painting
  • Paint

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