Value Quotes

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.

Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.