Value Quotes

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.

My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land.

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.

I mean, I have a daughter, and it's a very bad message to send to my daughter that to be valid or accepted or to have value, you have to look a certain way. It's all about appearance, and not about education and not about contributing. I think we've completely lost our way.

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

We learned the value of research in World War II.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.