Top 70 Culture Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.”

— Simon Sinek

52. “We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.”

— Marshall McLuhan

53. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”

— Walt Whitman

54. “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

— Henry David Thoreau

55. “Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

56. “If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.”

— Anaïs Nin

57. “I am woman, hear me roar.”

— Helen Reddy

58. “The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.”

— Wade Davis

59. “Company culture is a religion, not a sermon.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

60. “The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening.”

— Edgar Schein

61. “A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

62. “Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.”

— Richard Branson

63. “As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity – we will always retain our dreams and a vision for the future for our people.”

— Ken Wyatt

64. “I am the dream and the hope of the slave.”

— Maya Angelou

65. “We’re born naked, and the rest is drag.”

— RuPaul

66. “Culture drives great results.”

— Jack Welch

67. “Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.”

— Robert L. Peters

68. “Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team’s performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.”

— John C. Maxwell

69. “Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.”

— Pablo Picasso

70. “Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don’t really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah.”

— Leonard Cohen

71. “Music to me is the air I breathe, it’s the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

72. “If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.”

— Lisa Delpit

73. “Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.”

— Julie Andrews

74. “Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.”

— Zoltan Kodaly

75. “Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

76. “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.”

— Maya Angelou

77. “The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.”

— Edward T. Hall