Values Quotes

• Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Economic
  • Transformation
  • Benefits

• The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.

  

  Johnny Giles
  • Football
  • Values
  • Despise

• I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Life
  • Results
  • Used

• The best tool today is longevity insurance - they call it income insurance. Most people know the value of life insurance. But what if you live? So instead of trying to guess one or the other, you plan for those 20 years and you get this income insurance. If you live beyond 85, you have money that's guaranteed for as long as you live in the form of an annuity.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Long
  • Trying

• We need to pass conservative policy. And we can only advance our values when we are united.

  

  Steve Scalise
  • Values
  • Advance
  • United

• Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Important
  • Mean
  • Priorities

• When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • God
  • Please
  • Holiness

• The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Men
  • Women
  • Cat

• Independent of biological need fulfillment and the reproductive needs of the species, cultures satisfy not bodily needs, but values. Values define cultural man's need for rationality, meaningfulness in emotional experience, richness of imagination, and depth of faith. All cultures respond to such supra-biological values. But in what form they do so depends on the specific kind of values people happen to have.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Experience
  • Faith
  • Imagination

• In 1776, 1950, or now, there's never been a golden age of liberty, and there never will be. People who value freedom will always have to defend it from those who claim the right to wield power over others. ... And, in today's world, that means more than a musket by the door. It means being an active citizen.

  

  David Boaz
  • People
  • Mean
  • Liberty

• Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

  

  Susie Bright
  • Values
  • Variety
  • Partnership

• I'm going to stay true. I'm going to stay true to my values.

  

  Andrew Gillum
  • True
  • Values
  • Stay

• He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Mean
  • Air
  • Feelings

• Americans know the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Values
  • Islam
  • American ideals

• The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Values
  • Able
  • Notes

• Value is a perception not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Feels
  • Perception
  • Calculations

• It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.

  

  Sidney Blumenthal
  • Values
  • Stand
  • Democrats

• I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Focus
  • Values
  • Highest

• Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Differences
  • Activity
  • Alternatives

• You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Want
  • Mean
  • Hard

• I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

  

  Nicolas Sarkozy
  • Responsibility
  • Values
  • Accept

• Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Principles
  • Endure
  • Permanent

• The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.

  

  Carl L. Becker
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Moral

• In the days of Ram Mohan Roy when English education was introduced in this country, the Mahomedans did not accept it... They did not accept English education and at the same time they were divorced from the culture which their fathers had advanced. The result was that whereas the Hindus got on in life, got into government employment, got many things which people value in life, the Mahomedans were left without it and gradually there came to be a sort of estrangement between the two nationalities at the time of the Swadeshi movement.

  

  Chittaranjan Das
  • Country
  • Father
  • Culture

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