Quotes About Values

There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

The Left neither cares about prosperity nor jobs. It cares about equality

We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.

And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.

Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.

The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and you're as American as anybody that came on the Mayflower.

That seems to me the greatest American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.

The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else.

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.