Value Quotes

Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.

Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.

The whole world says that my Way is great like nothing else. It is great because it is like nothing else. If it were like everything else, it would long ago have become insignificant.

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.

Life is precious.

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

It is the leaders job to add significance to the lives of the people he leads.

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

I think no virtue goes with size.

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value.

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any large audience, I fear it would be no gain to them, and a positive loss to me. I should have behaved rudely toward my rustling friends.

Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap enough. There may benothing lofty in the sentiment, or fine in the expression, but it is careless country talk. Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. Some have this merit only.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.

Everybody's life matters.

A little while alone in your roomwill prove more valuable than anything elsethat could ever be given you.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.

A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.