Value Quotes

"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving."
-Albert Einstein

"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
-Oscar Wilde

"Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst."
-Charles Garfield

"The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more."
-Carl Becker

"Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts."
-Allan Bloom

"Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences) worth writing about."
-Bette Greene

"Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away."
-Joseph Wood Krutch

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."
-M. Scott Peck

"The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline."
-Jacob Bronowski

"Value is what people are willing to pay for it."
-John Naisbitt

"It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself."
-Sandra Day O'conner

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
-Albert Einstein

"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community."
-Albert Einstein

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
-Mark Twain

"The 'highest' states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
-Charles Darwin

"Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given."
-Deepak Chopra

"In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright."
-Oprah Winfrey

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
-Carl Sagan

"Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness."
-Ayn Rand

"The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery."
-Lao tzu

"I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value."
-Alexander Hamilton

"The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed."
-Seneca

"The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little."
-Michel de Montaigne

"If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing."
-Benjamin Franklin

"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."
-Pythagoras

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
-Warren Buffett