Core Values Quotes

• I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.

  John Boehner

  Jobs, Dad, Father

  "Friends say the real John Boehner nothing like his 'insider' image" by Padmananda Rama and Brianna Keilar, www.cnn.com. November 7, 2010.

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

  Jon Stewart

  Motivational, Sticks, Hobbies

  "The Daily Show", January 22, 2009.

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• My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Self, Definitions

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• Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.

  John C. Maxwell

  Soul, Belief, Your Soul

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• Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Positive, Leadership

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• Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

  Tony Hsieh

  Character, Destiny, Organization

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

  Benjamin Carson

  People, Risk, Important

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• The secret to achieving inner peace lies in understanding our inner core values – those things in our lives that are most important to us – and then seeing that they are reflected in the daily events of our lives.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Lying, Understanding, Inner Peace

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• Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

  Colin Powell

  Leader, Honor, Flexible

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• I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

  Tiger Woods

  Get Away, Wanted, Core

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• Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Voice, Tone, Term

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2015

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• I salute every individual who honours the core values of peace and help in one way or another to make a difference.

  Widad Akrawi

  Differences, Making A Difference, Way

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• In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Equality, Health Education

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• There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Evolution, Form, Family Life

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• I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.

  Steve Jobs

  World, Littles, Slides

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• The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Jobs, Fall

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• Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

  Ben Quayle

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Issues

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• I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

  Darrell Hammond

  Doctors, Brain, Dialogue

  "Darrell Hammond Book: Comedian Reveals Childhood Abuse, Psychiatric Treatment". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Change your practices without abandoning your core values.

  James C. Collins

  Practice, Core, Values

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• Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

  T. D. Jakes

  Life And Love, Real, Family And Friends

  Twitter post from Apr 22, 2013

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• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Giving Up, Civilization, Dying

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• The more attention we can devote to helping developing leaders tune in to their core values - drawing on their real experience and their true aspirations in life - the more likely it is they'll make smart choices about how and where to invest their talents.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Real, Smart, Drawing

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly love and altruism. The more clearly we see the benefits of these values, the more we will seek to reject anything that opposes them; in this way we will be able to bring about inner transformation.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Happiness, Buddhist

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• You have to have core values. What do you believe in? Do you believe in hard work? Do you believe in discipline? Do you believe in conditioning? Because those are the things I know that do work.

  Tom Thibodeau

  Believe, Hard Work, Discipline

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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  If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Hope

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