Value Quotes

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

Overpay good baby-sitters.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.

In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

Friends should be preferred to kings.

In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value. They do not glory in victory.

I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you.

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time.

A gun will give you the body, not the bird

Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

With integrity, nothing else counts. Without integrity, nothing else counts.

The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.

Today is an opportunity to do something positive. Today is your chance to add new value to your life and to your world. Make the commitment to fill this day with meaningful richness and purposeful effort. This is your day to live, so do so with vigor and enthusiasm.

Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Out here I had been putting what little money I had in Ocean Frontage, for the sole reason that there was only so much of it and no more, and that they wasent making any more.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

Nothing worth having comes easy.

She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.

Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold.

If you want anything to change, you've got to change it. If you want things to get better, you've got to get better. And the only way to really do well in life is to find more value than anybody.

Your life is worth much more than gold.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.

For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.

What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?