Quotes about value

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

— Arthur James Balfour

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

— Buddha

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

— Warren Buffett

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

— Samuel Butler

That which costs little is less valued.

— Miguel De Cervantes

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

— Marcus T. Cicero

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

— Roy Disney

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

— Albert Einstein

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

— Albert Einstein

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.

— Edgar Z. Friedenberg

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

— William Hazlitt

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.

— Hsi-Tang

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.

— W. Stanley Jevons

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

— Samuel Johnson

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

— Ann Landers

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

— C. S. Lewis

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

— Lin Yu-tang

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

— Malcolm X

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

— Karl Marx

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

— John Naisbitt

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

— Thomas Paine

We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.

— French Proverb

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.

— Anthony Robbins

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

— Jim Rohn

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

— Jim Rohn

The best thing in life aren't things.

— John Ruskin

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

— Jonathan Sacks

You are only worth as much as you have.

— Saying

Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.

— George Sheehan

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

— Ignazio Silone

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

— Gloria Steinem

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

— Publilius Syrus

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

— Allen Tate

Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.

— Terence

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

— Source Unknown

People should know what you stand for. They should also know what you won't stand for.

— Source Unknown

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

— Denis Waitley

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

— J. R. Tolkien

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

— Samuel Johnson