Standards And Values Quotes

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

Hillary Clinton

Thinking, People, Would Be

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Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

Albert Einstein

Skills, Humanity, Opening Your Mind

Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.70, Princeton University Press

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Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

David Maister

Believe, Excellence, Compromise

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The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same is attempted internationally. The conflict between planning and freedom cannot but become more serious as the similarity of standards and values among those submitted to a unitary plan diminishes.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Dimensions, Serious, Planning

"The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

Ann Bridge

Advertising, Virtue, Modern

Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.178, A&C Black

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Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.

Boyd K. Packer

Spiritual, Parent, Disease

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