Values Quotes

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that, if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too

William Somerset Maughan

One need not argue a full-blooded materialist position to say that it is capitalism that has given the general character to modern liberal societies. It is capitalist institutions and values--private property, profit-seeking, individualism, consumerism--that color the attitudes and beliefs of the majority of the populations of modern societies.

Krishan Kumar

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D Eisenhower

It is very important to make sure the person you're marrying is like minded. It's crucial for a couple to have shared goals and values. The more you have in common the less you have to argue about

Barbara Friedman

“A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations.”

Charles Abrams

A set of global values in keeping with human nature and dignity need to be identified and developed

Nayef Al-Rodhan

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

Arthur Henderson

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

Hosni Mubarak

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.

Marsha Sinetar

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

Joshua Loth Liebman

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

Barack Obama

The machine called Nature into an art form. For the first time at men began to regard Nature as a source of aesthetic and spiritual values.

Marshal McLuhan

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Roy Disney

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Stephen Covey