Values quotes

Discover inspirational values quotes that will uplift your spirits and resonate with your beliefs. Explore our diverse collection of wise words that celebrate the timeless importance of values in shaping our lives and society.

Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.

- John Howard

President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.

- George Soros

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

- Brittany Murphy

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

- Arthur Erickson

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

- Amos Oz

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

- Jeff Miller

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

- Rocco Buttiglione

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

- Dick Gephardt

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values.

- Kathy Mattea

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

- Phyllis Schlafly

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

- Juan Goytisolo

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

- Roy E. Disney

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

- Margaret Thatcher

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

- John W. Gardner

Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.

- Jan Peter Balkenende

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

- Tammy Bruce

The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.

- Joe Moore

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

- Thomas Cochrane

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

- Arthur Levitt

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

- Lewis Mumford

In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.

- Arthur C. Brooks

The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

- Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects.

- Danny Glover

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

- Andrew Bernstein

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

- Sidney Poitier

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved.

- Peter L. Berger

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

- John Tukey

We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.

- Morarji Desai

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

- Antonio Tabucchi