Jimmy Carter Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

  Jimmy Carter

  Running, Important Values, Jogging

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

• Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

  Jimmy Carter

  Luxury, Salt, Bread

• I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history... The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, Impact, America

  "Carter blasts Bush, Blair on Iraq". www.reuters.com. May 20, 2007.

• In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which is in itself a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy and grace, their lives lose all value.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, War, Order

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.1030, Simon and Schuster

• We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century... During this period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries but necessities - not the salt in our bread but the bread itself.

  Jimmy Carter

  Patriotic, Commitment, Past

  Jimmy Carter's Farewell Address, www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov. January 14, 1981.

• Throughout my life, I've seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people's lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.

  Jimmy Carter

  Differences, People, Volunteer

• We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Pain, Grandparent, Joy

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

• On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.

  Jimmy Carter

  Islam, United States, Natural

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

• Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

  Jimmy Carter

  Home, Patriotic, Blessing

  Jimmy Carter's Farewell Address, January 14, 1981.

• Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

  Jimmy Carter

  Unemployment, Virtue, Economics

  1976 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 15 July, 1976

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