Good Values Quotes

• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Religious

  Quoted inWilliam H. Herndon and JesseW.Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (1889)

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• By choosing to embrace and practice good values every day, you choose the higher course in life. And your life goes in a direction that you will always feel good about. You may not always get what you desire, but you will always be the person you desire to be.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Integrity, Practice

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• I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.

  Charles Koch

  Humility, People, Challenges

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Johnny Miller is a very honest guy. That may have been to his detriment sometimes. On television, he's too honest. We talk about it a lot. Do you really need to be that honest? You know what I mean? But he's a good man. He's a good family man. He's got good values, and we're delighted to have him as our honoree.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Mean, Men, Guy

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• In my class was an Annapolis graduate, several engineers, and most recent president of the University of Alabama.These were all small-town people who had good values. The families were tight. The schools reaffirmed the families and reaffirmed the church values that you were taught. I guess it was just one of those swell times to be a part of.

  Jeff Sessions

  School, Class, People

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• I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.

  Henry Earl Singleton

  Believe, Timing, Nonsense

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• I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.

  Yolanda Adams

  Christian, Growing Up, Fun

  "Yolanda Adams 'How Sweet The Sound'". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. October 23, 2012.

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• Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is parliament that is failing to provide good value for money.

  Margaret Hodge

  Thinking, Mps, Lazy

  "MPs look lazy with short parliamentary hours, says Margaret Hodge" by Rajeev Syal, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2013.

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• I was brought up by a Victorian Grandmother. We were taught to work jolly hard. We were taught to prove yourself; we were taught self reliance; we were taught to live within our income. You were taught that cleanliness is next to Godliness. You were taught self respect. You were taught always to give a hand to your neighbour. You were taught tremendous pride in your country. All of these things are Victorian values. They are also perennial values. You don't hear so much about these things these days, but they were good values and they led to tremendous improvements in the standard of living.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Pride, Grandmother

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• It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and theyll keep coming back.

  Dave Thomas

  Clean, Restaurants, Coming Back

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• If you go against someone, you say, you can't vote for these Democrats, they don't have good values, they're not good people, they're weak, they're spineless, they're don't love America, they're giving aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein, that's the kind of thing I think is bad for America, because it stops the voters from thinking. And any time you stop thinking in a free society you get in trouble.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people think that the book was good value for money, you have achieved something, because if you haven't achieved those things you're not going to achieve the other thing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Good values are like a magnet – they attract good people.

  John Wooden

  People, Magnet, Good People

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• Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Play, Parent

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• Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true typically turn out to be those accustomed to being controlled— those who are not trusted, given explanations, encouraged to think for themselves, helped to develop and internalize good values, and so on. Control breeds the need for more control, which is used to justify the use of control.

  Alfie Kohn

  Running, Children, Thinking

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We've got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.

  Bobby Orr

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.

  Geri Halliwell

  Daughter, Mother, Responsibility

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• Good values are easier caught than taught.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Integrity, Taught

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• America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Nsa, America

  "Edward Snowden on Why He Stood Up to the NSA: Mass Spying "Not Something I’m Willing to Live Under"". Interview with Amy Goodman, Juan González, www.truth-out.org. July 10, 2013.

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• Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used by other ethnic groups don't apply to you. Forget about work hard, get an education, posses good values. No, for you, we'll alter the rules by lowering the standards and expecting less.' Expect less, get less.

  Larry Elder

  Children, Hard Work, White

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• Values are good things only if they are good values.

  Michael Josephson

  Integrity, Good Things, Ifs

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• Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.

  Stuart Rose

  Care, Want, Made

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• There’s a virtuous cycle when people have to defend challenges to their ideas. Any gaps in thinking or analysis become clear pretty quickly when smart people ask good, logical questions. You can’t be a good value investor without being an independent thinker – you’re seeing valuations that the market is not appreciating. But it’s critical that you understand why the market isn’t seeing the value you do. The back and forth that goes on in the investment process helps you get at that.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Smart, Independent, Thinking

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• When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

  Roger Ebert

  Party, Wife, Use

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