Top 1200 Positive Values Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.

I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance.

I was a human rights lawyer for 20 years, I believed those values of dignity, equality and non-discrimination were a given. believed the only question in my lifetime would be - how much further do we extend those values? I did not think in my lifetime we'd actually be having an argument about those values.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else's day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference.

I'm a good, upstanding guy with moral values and core values.

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.

I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'

The Secretary-General must be a determined advocate for the values of tolerance and solidarity - universal values that are shared by cultures and religions around the globe.

Through fashion, it's possible to express deep values of one's creative talent and also the values that are expected of society.

I very much believe in values-based leadership, and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values. They have nothing to do with race or even with political parties. Secondly, I think nothing substitutes for the power of the grassroots by showing them the courtesy of going to them where they are and inviting them to take part in the political process.

I am just very positive in my mind, my shot selection is positive.

Of course I wish for all positive reviews and all positive things, but that's not reality and no one's perfect.

In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.

Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a life-long process — and the higher the values, the harder the struggle — he needs a moment, an hour or some period of time in which he can experience the sense of his completed task, the sense of living in a universe where his values have been successfully achieved.

I really believe in positive energy and positive thinking and dreams and all that type of stuff.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

An Israeli soldier is raised on values of respecting human life, and they don't change their values when they turn 18 and enter the army.

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

When we function from a place of positive energy, the world around us becomes more positive.

There's a lot of politics in football, and sometimes the real values of the sport, those human values, get lost.

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

The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they need to implement their own values - and not those of the politicians. With the income tax gone, families will no longer be forced to have two breadwinners by necessity. Children will be raised better, family values will predominate, and crime will diminish. If your local school indoctrinates your child with values that are alien to you, you'll have the money to buy a private education.

Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.

Values are most important. Democratic values have to be instilled from childhood and the child sees at an early stage in life in every situation in society.

Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.

The greater the prevalence of positive thoughts, the more likely you are to receive a positive outcome.

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process

I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I strongly believe in.

If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.

If you're not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don't bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement. You'll be better off without one.

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives.

This patriotic revolution where people want to find their own identity are not racist but want to fight for the preservation of their own people. Their own country, their own values. Their own money. Their own borders. This is such a positive thing.

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.

You can't live A POSITIVE LIFE thinking negative thoughts. Dwell on the POSITIVE.

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?

We have to be leaders and sacrifice our own egos and be humble and go in and figure out what their values are, and then speak to those values.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

If you have a positive frame of mind, you can manifest positive things in your life.

... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia.

Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.

Macron talks about values, but he doesn't recognize the values itself, and therefore, they have no lessons to give to Italy.

Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. This quest for enlightenment must begin now. It is essential that all men and women become aware of what they are, why they are here on Earth and what they must do to preserve civilization before it is too late.

A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious.

Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else’s day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference.

Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.