Value Quotes
We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.
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.
Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.
As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.
The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.
Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.
Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.
It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.
The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.
I believe that the true value of life lies in work, diligence and innovation. After all, work is the essence of humanity.
We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.
I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.
He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance.
Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.
To make a quick buck, but over time, if you're not creating value for others, customers, society, isn't going to let you be around.
Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others.
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.
In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
I'm a big believer in what's called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, value system and unique conditions.
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.
The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
Intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.
The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.
I'm not easily offended. I have a pretty high tolerance for raunchiness or shock value, so I'm the wrong person to use as a gauge.
Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation.
Intrinsic value is not measured by how much money you make, it's measured by the size of the problem you solve.
I grew up in a very politically aware family. My mother always taught me to question everything, never believing anything simply at face value - especially the nicest, most adamant politicians.
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that."
