Values Quotes - Page 11

• America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that's what will get us on the right track now, as well.

  Benjamin Carson

  Hard Work, Creativity, Responsibility

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Americans believe that you can alter people by conversion, and that everybody in the world is a potential American. The Chinese also believe that their values are universal, but they do not believe that you can convert to becoming a Chinese unless you are born into it.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, People, Chinese

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• The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Art, Limits, Realizing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The reason I'm interested in alternative worlds and near-future settings is that it allows us to look at our own limitations in our worldviews. These settings allow me to explore how our world might evolve if we allow individualistic kinds of success to remain our primary value. I'm not trying to be overly bleak, and I don't feel bleak or sad about our world. I want empowered and educated people who understand a lot about the world's challenges to strive to be noble, rather than cynical. I think we still need more champions out there.

  Jennifer Phang

  Thinking, Our World, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It is hard to put a price on some things. What is the value of having prevented nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein - or of Gadhafi?

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Hands, Nuclear, Hussein

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I certainly think that the world views the United States as a place to be respected. All over the world our values are respected; who we are, a place that you can come and come from modest circumstances to great things, that's respected.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, Views, United States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• America cannot do most of what needs to be done alone. You need friends. And we have good friends around the world. We have friends with whom we share values in Europe and Asia - thanks to the forward march of democracy - in Latin America, in Africa, and increasingly in the Middle East.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Latin, Good Friend, Europe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We can't live true to our set of values unless American educational system is strong. I really believe that if we don't get that right we will not compete because we won't believe that our people can compete, and we'll turn inward. We won't lead. That will be bad for the world.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Strong, Educational, Believe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mistake, Moving, Forgiving

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• There is, literally and figuratively, not a gold standard. That's almost as big a problem in art as in the financial world. How do you affix a value to something that only has value because a certain number of people agree to believe in that value?

  John Currin

  Art, Believe, Numbers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a kid, you want to be liked for who you are. You don't want to be liked for who your parents are. You don't want to get a job because of who your parents are. You want to do it on your own, with your own gifts and your own value. So, I decided to spare my kids that and not be as pro-active as my dad was.

  Jeff Bridges

  Jobs, Dad, Kids

  "Jeff Bridges Interview AMERICAN MASTERS – JEFF BRIDGES: THE DUDE ABIDES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I think it's perfectly consistent to say that I want my government to be operating for all faiths and all peoples, including atheists and agnostics, while also insisting that there are values tha tinform my politics that are appropriate to talk about.

  Barack Obama

  Atheist, Thinking, Government

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. March 27, 2004.

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• When you have children, you realize that at the end it's all about passing on, about handing down. The process of letting go, not attachment, but appreciating the beauty and value in the change, the transformation.

  Andy Serkis

  Letting Go, Children, Attachment

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We need to undergo a very radical revolution in values. And we need to think about what it's like to have become so materialistic that we think having a good job, and consuming like crazy to compensate for the dehumanization of the job, is living like a human being.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion. Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Real, Home

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The world of Islam is a world completely distinct from ours. Muslims have a different set of values. They look at the world through the contorted mirror of Islam and everything they see is warped. That is the only reality they know. Islam is their only point of reference. Therefore when they commit the most dastardly acts such as murder of school children, they genuinely don't know that what they are doing is evil.

  Ali Sina

  Children, School, Reality

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Talking about morality can be offensive. Morality is a politically incorrect subject. Many people are genuinely offended if someone speaks of morality and family values. It is okay if you talk about your sexual fantasies and deviances. This is called "liberation". But you would be frowned at if you talk about morality in public. Then you'd be accused of trying to impose your values on others.

  Ali Sina

  Talking, People, Trying

  Source: myislam.dk

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• These are facts that would make every American upset. Our birthright is being stolen, the legacy of our country is at stake, and the values of our nation are in peril. The future whispers, and the present shouts.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, Upset, Legacy

  Interview with David Kupfer, November 2006.

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• People don't give a damn about you and they don't give a damn about your story and they don't give a damn about your content. They only give a damn that you, your content, your story can bring value to them.

  Larry Winget

  People, Giving, Stories

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• It's just easier to talk about product attributes that you can measure with a number. Focus on price, screen size, that's easy. But there's a more difficult path, and that's to make better products, ones where maybe you can't measure their value empirically.

  Jonathan Ive

  Inspirational, Motivational, Numbers

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• For some reason,we keep forgetting some of our experience. We look back but don't bring the value forward. We bring the anger, the upset. We bring the fear.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Upset, Looks, Forget

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• I believe that people need to get their worth and value from knowing that God loves them. I believe that all healing in our inner man and even, we know Christ also heals people's physical diseases, but the Bible says he heals our wounds and bruises. Don't worry about what's wrong with you right now, God accepts you just the way you are and he will help you be what he wants you to be.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Healing, Men

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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• Determination and persistence are melded together. Their basis comes from people who stay hungry and don`t allow themselves to get too comfortable. Entering a comfort zone is the fastest way to kill your drive and determination, at which point you begin to accept whatever you have as being "good enough." There is no self-esteem in accepting the status quo. There are tremendous emotional and psychological rewards that come with pushing yourself to break through past limits and, in the process, creating something of value for yourself and others.

  Tony Robbins

  Determination, Self Esteem, Emotional

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• My great goal in life is to try to remember that everything is of equal value.

  Emma Stone

  Goal, Trying, Remember

  Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly unless you have the right set of values and understand why you're doing it. Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already gotten to that point, and seen all the yuck stuff - which is probably why they originally didn't want me to act.

  Laura Dern

  People, Ugly, Get Real

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