Foundational Values Quotes

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

I am not a compromiser on fundamentals.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.

Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented America.

Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength.

But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support.

My father has a movement that started before us. As his children, we are just the stewards to build on his foundation.

I think it's motivating and exalting when we defend ideas that are at the foundation of western civilization.

The adjectives that are in the book ["Win"] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as important as principles. Without principles, the language will fail.

Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review.

I yearn for the day when we'll return to the foundational value that makes this country great.

My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

My brother, this "religiosity" is not the standard by which true men of God are measured. In all the rituals that Islam has, deeply imbedded in those rituals are principles of truth. And sometimes we get lost in the religiosity; we get lost in the "symbol," but we miss the substance of the truth that is buried in the ritual!

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