logo

Quotes About Values

If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.
~ Mary McCarthy
I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
God is concerned that Christians live consistent with their profession even in the seemingly small and insignificant areas of life.
~ Max Anders
Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.
~ Frederick Lenz
We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and ideas.
~ Frederick Lenz
the very people who clamor the loudest about animal suffering won't actually pay for meat that has been ethically slaughtered.
~ John Durant
UFO abductions have been reported and collected most frequently in Western countries or countries dominated by Western culture and values, but our investigations are revealing that the phenomenon, in its familiar form, occurs among native peoples in North and South America and in Africa.
~ John E. Mack
A graduate can be academically excellent but morally and spiritually bankrupt. We need to consider these dimensions in education as well.
~ John Eidsmoe
Source of national strength. By providing leadership, guidance, restraint, security, and values, the family unit promotes the greatness of the nation. Should the family fail in these responsibilities, the nation will suffer as a result.
~ John Eidsmoe
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.
~ John Ernst Steinbeck
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest form of appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. - John F. Kennedy
~ John F Kennedy
If you and another person had exactly the same values, one of you would not be necessary!
~ John F. Demartini
If there is something that you believe you would love to have in your life—such as a more fulfilling career, a life partner, or greater financial freedom—I can tell you that the reason you don't yet have it in that particular form is almost certainly that you don't truly value it enough. There
~ John F. Demartini
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
~ John F. Kennedy
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
~ John F. Kennedy
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
~ John F. Kennedy
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." [ Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America ; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962]
~ John F. Kennedy
Eccola chiesa di Nostra Signora, un edificio antico, con l'adobe annerito dal tempo. Decido di entrarci. Per ragioni sentimentali, non per altro. Non ho mai letto Lenin, ma l'ho sentito citare: la religione è l'oppio dei popoli. Quanto a me, sono ateo: ho letto L' Anticristo e la considero un'opera fondamentale. Credo nel cambiamento dei valori, Signore. La Chiesa deve sparire; è il ricettacolo degli stolti, delle canaglie e delle mezze cartucce.
~ John Fante
Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust.
~ John Fellows Akers
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
~ John Fisher