Value Quotes

‘Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.’ – Charles Darwin

‘Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.’ – Thornton Wilder

‘It’s not just about winning or losing, but to learn about teamwork, learn about sportsmanship, learn about discipline. The value of working together for a common goal. Have the emphasis on fundamentals, not just games.’ – Erik Spoelstra

‘There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.’ – Lord Byron

‘Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.’ – Anton Chekhov

‘The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.’ – Myles Munroe

‘One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.’ – Simone de Beauvoir

‘Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.’ – Jim Rohn

‘Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.’ – Warren Buffett

‘To add value to others, one must first value others.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.’ – Aristotle

‘Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

‘What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.’ – Denis Waitley

‘The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite for stable societies; its wanton destruction is akin to setting fire to our lifeboat.’ – Johan Rockstrom

‘Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.’ – Pablo Picasso

‘Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.’ – R. Buckminster Fuller

‘Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.’ – Karl Marx

‘No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.’ – William Godwin

‘I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘I learned the value of hard work by working hard.’ – Margaret Mead

‘Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.’ – Louis L’Amour

‘In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.’ – Alan Greenspan

‘We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.’ – Michelle Obama

‘Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.’ – Desmond Tutu

‘This is the key to time management – to see the value of every moment.’ – Menachem Mendel Schneerson

‘Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.’ – Graham Greene

‘You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don’t know the value of your own soul, it’s all foolishness.’ – Rumi

‘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

‘In 2017, people have realized there isn’t going to be one crypto to rule them all. You’re seeing vertical solutions where XRP is focused on payment problems, Ethereum is focused on smart contracts, and increasingly, bitcoin is a store of value. Those aren’t competitive. In fact, I want bitcoin and Ethereum to be successful.’ – Brad Garlinghouse

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

‘Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?’ – Jack London

‘It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.’ – Gina Barreca

‘Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.’ – William Osler

‘It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.’ – Arthur C. Clarke

‘A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.’ – Dayananda Saraswati

‘Some experiences can give you a chip on your shoulder, but they also teach you the value of independence and looking out for yourself.’ – Rick Ross

‘I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘I am rare, and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable.’ – Og Mandino

‘If you don’t have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur.’ – Elon Musk

‘The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘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

‘There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.’ – Soichiro Honda

‘If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.’ – Ralph Marston

‘The value of an idea lies in the using of it.’ – Thomas A. Edison

‘Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright

‘Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can’t hear, and not bothering.’ – A. A. Milne

‘Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.’ – Jim Elliot

‘I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.’ – Joseph Addison

‘People are at their best when they are challenged. If we don’t challenge ourselves, nature has a way of giving us challenges anyway. There is great value in our struggles, and human nature has shown us that we only value the things we struggle to achieve.’ – Thomas Frey

‘What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.’ – Richard Grant

‘Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory.’ – Laura Esquivel

‘Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.’ – Maria Montessori

‘In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.’ – Georg Cantor

‘When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.’ – Edwin Booth

‘I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. Meetings must be deliberate and intentional – your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness over efficiency.’ – Chris Fussell

‘Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.’ – Arthur Miller

‘Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it’s not random.’ – Ken Robinson

‘There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.’ – Sharron Angle

‘Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.’ – Cavett Robert

‘Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.’ – Ray Kurzweil

‘As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon… what it means to you.’ – Christopher McCandless

‘If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.’ – Joseph Smith, Jr.

‘We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.’ – Alanis Morissette

‘At its best, what art does is, it points to who we as human beings and what we as human beings value. And if Black Lives Matter, they deserve to be in paintings.’ – Kehinde Wiley

‘I believe it’s our responsibility to show our communities the value of all people, to celebrate different, and to take a stand for acceptance and inclusion.’ – Julie Foudy

‘What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.’ – Thomas Paine

‘I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life… it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can.’ – Sonia Sotomayor

‘To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way.’ – June Jordan

‘When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.’ – Dian Fossey

‘If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.’ – Bernard Hopkins

‘For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent.’ – Tony Robbins

‘True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘Value is what people are willing to pay for it.’ – John Naisbitt

‘I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.’ – Tim Ferriss

‘To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.’ – Paul Rand

‘Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.’ – Antoni Gaudi

‘Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.’ – Joseph Campbell

‘I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.’ – Francis Ford Coppola

‘Linux is only free if your time has no value.’ – Jamie Zawinski

‘Money is the probably the most successful story ever told. It has no objective value… but then you have these master storytellers: the big bankers, the finance ministers… and they come, and they tell a very convincing story.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.’ – Wilhelm Wundt

‘All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I’m learning the value of saying no. That’s very important.’ – Willie Nelson

‘I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.’ – Georg Simmel

‘A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ‘At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.’ – Claude Pepper’ – Claude Pepper

‘There’s nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.’ – Willie Stargell

‘When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?’ – Marilyn Manson

‘Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.’ – Jeffrey Gitomer

‘We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that’s short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it.’ – Chamath Palihapitiya

‘If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.’ – Swami Vivekananda

‘The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you’ve got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don’t give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.’ – Jack Ma

‘Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.’ – Ferdinand Foch

‘There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you’re involved in, whether it’s a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.’ – Gary Gygax

‘If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.’ – Joni Eareckson Tada

‘For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It’s not negotiable.’ – Edgar Ramirez

‘National honor is the national property of the highest value.’ – James Monroe

‘If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?’ – Chanakya

‘It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.’ – Billie Eilish

‘Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.’ – Howard Dean

‘Jazz music is America’s past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.’ – Wynton Marsalis

‘I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘Modern genetic engineering makes producing GMO food products relatively easy. GMOs can improve crop yield and greatly enhance the nutritional value of those same crops.’ – Richard J. Roberts

‘We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn’t recognize value, it’s contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it’s done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.’ – Alice Waters

‘Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.’ – Douglas Horton

‘The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.’ – Jim Rohn

‘It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.’ – Norman Vincent Peale

‘We need a sense of the value of time – that is, of the best way to divide one’s time into one’s various activities.’ – Arnold Bennett

‘Forgiveness isn’t just the absence of anger. I think it’s also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.’ – Tara Westover

‘Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn’t allow you to achieve greatness and results. It’s the day-to-day consistency of providing value to your audience.’ – Lewis Howes

‘Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.’ – Ann Landers

‘The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?’ – John Muir

‘Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘The intelligent ruler does not value people who are of themselves good without rewards and punishments. Why is that? The laws of the state cannot be neglected, and it is not one man who is being ruled.’ – Han Fei

‘There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.’ – David Ricardo

‘The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.’ – Ada Lovelace

‘If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘We value seriousness and willingness to solve problems.’ – Abhijit Banerjee

‘The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.’ – Peter De Vries

‘Never let anyone or anything define your value or limit your dream.’ – Judy Sheindlin

‘Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘Loyalty is one of the qualities in a friend that I value most.’ – Peyton List

‘A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.’ – Isaac Asimov

‘What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.’ – Fred Wilson

‘I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.’ – David Livingstone

‘The people in the world who don’t know my background, don’t know my story, don’t know anything about me, they’re gonna judge it off face value and hate right away. People hate what they can’t understand.’ – Nav

‘Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.’ – Kay Redfield Jamison

‘It’s about respect and the morals and the value of life. And treat people how you want to be treated. That’s the biggest thing I was brought up on from my parents.’ – A. J. Green

”Pathological liar’ is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can’t take anything they say at face value. And you can’t, you know, fill in their personality. You don’t know what’s real and what’s not.’ – Dale Archer

‘There’s a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over – and to let go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its value.’ – Ellen Goodman

‘Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one’s self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.’ – Michelangelo

‘They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.’ – Thomas More

‘I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.’ – George Soros

‘The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.’ – Chester A. Arthur

‘Millennials are more aware of society’s many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.’ – Michael Porter

‘Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.’ – Claude Shannon

‘If you don’t value and respect yourself, nobody else will.’ – Nagma

‘Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.’ – Gamaliel Bailey

‘Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.’ – Robert Baden-Powell

‘The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.’ – Gregor Mendel

‘We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.’ – Lilly Ledbetter

‘The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘You can’t allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don’t consider what you do to have any value at all, and that’s nonsense.’ – Robert Smith

‘When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They’re playing the sprint. They’re not worried about lifetime value and retention. They’re worried about short-term goals.’ – Gary Vaynerchuk

‘Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.’ – Joseph A. Schumpeter

‘The value of art is in the observer.’ – Agnes Martin

‘The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.’ – Brian Tracy

‘To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It’s asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It’s one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live.’ – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

‘We may define therapy as a search for value.’ – Abraham Maslow

‘People think that women don’t negotiate because they’re not good negotiators, but that’s not it. Women don’t negotiate because it doesn’t work as well for them. Women have to say, ‘I really add a lot of value, and it’s in your interest to pay me more.’ I hate that advice, but I want to see women get ahead.’ – Sheryl Sandberg

‘If it were easy, it would have no value.’ – Bill Toomey

‘Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life.’ – Steven Biko

‘The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.’ – Ida Tarbell

‘I see possibilities in everything. For everything that’s taken away, something of greater value has been given.’ – Michael J. Fox

‘Creating value isn’t enough – you also need to capture some of the value you create.’ – Peter Thiel

‘My definition of ‘innovative’ is providing value to the customer.’ – Mary Barra

‘You might be a redneck if… the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.’ – Jeff Foxworthy

‘It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they’ll keep coming back.’ – Dave Thomas

‘I realized that I get pleasure when I’m told, ‘Don’t listen to the haters; they’re losers in their moms’ basements.’ I imagine these ‘losers’ and feel better about myself. Their insults hurt less if I label them ‘pathetic.’ I diminish their value in order to protect mine. I noticed that I’m quick to make a joke at someone else’s expense.’ – Julie Plec

‘I know I’m not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I’ll deliver for you.’ – Edward G. Robinson

‘Anyone who is humble but still super accomplished, super recognized, renowned, has status, and has every reason to not have to be humble if they don’t want to, but they still choose to be humble because they value that humanity is connected – that we’re all on the same level as humans – that humility is what wins my heart.’ – Jay Shetty

‘A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.’ – Jacque Fresco

‘Flea markets are fun because they are the ultimate treasure hunt. Be open to the fact that you never know what you’ll find. The most beautiful, quirky, funny, scary pieces may not have an intrinsic value.’ – Lara Spencer

‘Wyoming is a special place: Where our farmers and ranchers rise before dawn and work until night to feed our nation. Where our coal miners and oil field workers produce the energy that powers America’s homes and businesses, and where our families are guided by faith, know the value of hard work, and deeply love our land.’ – Liz Cheney

‘I think humility – which I think is a very good value to adopt – is basically an extension of understanding your own ignorance.’ – Mark Manson

‘Giving back to the communities and institutions that helped us achieve success is a value we share and a privilege we embrace.’ – Dinesh Paliwal

‘You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.’ – Milan Kundera

‘The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.’ – N. R. Narayana Murthy

‘Time only has value when it intersects with energy.’ – Jim Loehr

‘Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.’ – Simone Weil

‘The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others that deserve it.’ – William Temple

‘A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.’ – John Mackey

‘There are those who believe that the value of a children’s book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that’s huge.’ – Barbara Park

‘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

‘I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.’ – Boris Pasternak

‘You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.’ – Jordan Peterson

‘It takes courage to acknowledge uncertainty. And nothing is more attractive than demonstrating to another person that he or she is of value to you.’ – Tony Goldwyn

‘I don’t mind UFO’s and ghost stories, it’s just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.’ – Robert Stack

‘AWS moves fast, listens to customers, and creates value on top of our already successful cloud-computing infrastructure. We’re consistently thinking two to five years forward.’ – Andy Jassy

‘Your employer is the last person you should want to provide for your healthcare, from a privacy, financial, and value standpoint. Employees with families should get the family, meaning spouses and children, off the company plan. In most cases, that will save them money.’ – Paul Zane Pilzer

‘You feel better when you’re eating food that retains nutritional value.’ – Amber Heard

‘Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.’ – George Gurdjieff

‘The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It’s all smoke and mirrors.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘In an efficient market, at any point in time, the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.’ – Eugene Fama

‘As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like ‘older and wiser’ and ‘respect your elders,’ promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.’ – Jenna Morasca

‘What is familiar tends to become a value.’ – Gordon W. Allport

‘I’m not cocky. I’m not arrogant. I know my value.’ – Joanna Jedrzejczyk

‘The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.’ – Ha-Joon Chang

‘Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I’m tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.’ – Julian Baggini

‘Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.’ – Michael Mandelbaum

‘I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.’ – Dalai Lama

‘I was raised by a woman who was her true and authentic self. So I feel like it’s very important to put on for people who aren’t that confident or people who don’t realize the value in self-love.’ – Megan Thee Stallion

‘It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country; I have more reason than anyone to feel, every day of my life, the value of the blood which flows in my veins, and it is only from prudence that at times I abstain from showing how proud I am of it.’ – Marie Antoinette

‘The market is often stupid, but you can’t focus on that. Focus on the underlying value of dividends and earnings.’ – John C. Bogle

‘I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.’ – Karisma Kapoor

‘Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.’ – Stephen Covey

‘I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.’ – Arthur Hays Sulzberger

‘It’s all about culture. If you can get the right people with the right mindset, the right core values and the ability to change on a dime, then you have the ability to invest and do what’s best for the health and long-term value proposition of the business.’ – David Steward

‘In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that’s like a big no-no. I know my parents’ discouragement was for my own protection, and I’m really close to them now, but they didn’t understand that there is value in this. That’s because they didn’t know.’ – Sandra Oh

‘There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.’ – Brad Pitt

‘I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders’ value; the other is social responsibility.’ – Guler Sabanci

‘It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible.’ – Tim Jackson

‘It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.’ – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

‘The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.’ – Reinhold Niebuhr

‘The upper middle class here still has options for entertainment. We have Internet, Hollywood and books. But for the majority and the masses, there is only TV. A lot of them sit at home and watch TV as they can’t afford other forms of entertainment. So, we try to do shows which have inspirational value.’ – Sanam Saeed

‘I guess the point of that song ‘Troublemaker, Doppelganger’ is trying to navigate the worth of beauty and if it’s hurtful or helpful to value beauty. If it’s a curse or a blessing. Is that something really negative and morbid, like the hearse, or is it the limousine – a glamorous symbol of enjoying life?’ – Lucy Dacus

‘Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.’ – Herman Kahn

‘How do you measure your value?’ – Loretta Lynn

‘What value does cryptocurrency actually add? No one’s been able to answer that question for me.’ – Steve Eisman

‘I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.’ – Susan B. Anthony

‘Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not teach us to see this as a loss. Pause for a moment and consider the magnitude of this message: We lose nothing of value by having no cross-racial relationships.’ – Robin DiAngelo

‘The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.’ – Albert Einstein

‘We rarely think to mark the trail for others to follow. ‘Live and learn,’ we say, acknowledging the value of experience. We usually forget about ‘Live and teach.” – Marilyn Ferguson

‘I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.’ – Xenophon

‘Creating organizations that value a growth mindset can create contexts in which more people grow into the knowledgeable, visionary, and responsible leaders we need.’ – Carol S. Dweck

‘As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.’ – Jim Rohn

‘There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one’s own greed.’ – Aga Khan IV

‘A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.’ – Gilbert Highet

‘There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It’s not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.’ – Daniel Radcliffe

‘Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Women want to attract a ‘high-value’ man. If that’s the man you want to attract you have to be high value yourself.’ – Matthew Hussey

‘There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.’ – Bono

‘I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.’ – Fran Lebowitz

‘Financial security is crucial for your family, and I have a large family. Money does matter when you don’t have it. When you need it, you realise the value of it. In that sense, money will always have value.’ – Katrina Kaif

‘There is no higher value in our society than integrity.’ – Arlen Specter

‘It became clear to me that our value as people is not in our stock portfolios and bank accounts but in the legacies we leave behind.’ – Julia Butterfly Hill

‘Bearing in mind most companies rely on the middle classes in developed countries to sell goods and services throughout the value chain, dealing with inequality is a matter of brutal enlightened self-interest. It’s simple economics: Global stability equals global growth equals profits.’ – Richard Quest

‘It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.’ – Dawn French

‘As long as I value what I have and respect my cricket, I know I am on the right path.’ – Ajinkya Rahane

‘Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.’ – Tullian Tchividjian

‘Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of ‘stuff’ but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.’ – Kevin McCloud

‘America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.’ – Laurie Helgoe

‘The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.’ – William Inge

‘Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.’ – Ellis Peters

‘Politicians are nauseating by definition… They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.’ – Gerhard Richter

‘Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.’ – Pierre de Coubertin

‘I really want be of great value for the team.’ – Ruud van Nistelrooy

‘Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.’ – Michael Leunig

‘The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it – whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that’s always and everywhere a subjective decision.’ – James Surowiecki

‘If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives – and you always stay focused on that service – the financial success will follow.’ – Brendon Burchard

‘The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.’ – Thom Mayne

‘The exterior of your house and the landscaping surrounding is a big factor in the first impression people form when driving by or pulling into your driveway, and most people would agree that location and curb appeal is paramount in the value of a home. After all, you can drop a pile of lumber and drywall anywhere!’ – Bryan Baeumler

‘I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me.’ – Liev Schreiber

‘I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher.’ – Laurieann Gibson

‘Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders.’ – Dilip Shanghvi

‘I feel my dad, I still feel his love, and I still love him. I would do anything to have him back, but half the reason that my life is good, has real, true value, is that he died. I would obviously rather have him alive, but he gave me so much in his death.’ – Gwyneth Paltrow

‘My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.’ – Taya Kyle

‘I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.’ – Ezra Pound

‘I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn’t defeat the British, it didn’t get us to the moon, build our nation’s highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.’ – Cory Booker

‘Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.’ – Ovid

‘People think a watch must weigh a lot to be a luxury. But there’s no reason why we should add weight to create value. People have to overcome these notions.’ – Richard Mille

‘Our everyday cares, making a living, the crazy rat race of life, often make us forget the value of a good deed. Thus, the goodness that exists within each and every one of us is covered with layer upon layer of indifference and unawareness. In fact, we almost have to be reminded of the fact that goodness is there inside us.’ – Shari Arison

‘Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.’ – William F. Buckley, Jr.

‘People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.’ – David Brooks

‘I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance of talking in a few words.’ – Kamal Haasan

‘In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who’s comfortable ‘putting himself out there.” – Susan Cain

‘Success doesn’t happen quickly. It happens from doing the same thing over and over, becoming great at it, and delivering great value to consumers.’ – Kevin Plank

‘I value my privacy and my personal life – and I certainly don’t exploit my personal life.’ – Scarlett Johansson

‘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.’ – Carre Otis

‘Bitcoin is really a fascinating example of how human beings create value, and is not always rational… tt is not a rational currency in that case.’ – Alan Greenspan

‘The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.’ – John Tukey

‘For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.’ – Kevin Parker

‘My thesis topic was ‘The value of a human life.’ I asked people a question: ‘Suppose you had some risk, a one in a thousand risk of dying – how much would you pay to eliminate it?” – Richard Thaler

‘In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.’ – Zygmunt Bauman

‘We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘I guess that’s one achievement I’m really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.’ – Lee Iacocca

‘I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.’ – Mohnish Pabrai

‘As history unfolds, as cultures evolve, of course the intelligences which they value change.’ – Howard Gardner

‘We should seek the greatest value of our action.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.’ – Scott Hamilton

‘Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.’ – Karl Marx

‘The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.’ – Thomas Hardy

‘People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘There’s value in checks and balances. And there’s value in having independence in the governor’s office with respect to the legislature.’ – Charlie Baker

‘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.’ – Robert Hall

‘There’s certainly tangible value whenever you’re out there getting reps – there’s always something you can learn, something you can get better at.’ – Jason Kelce

‘Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs.’ – Mike Rowe

‘When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that’s when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.’ – Hank Green

‘It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘People don’t trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.’ – Roy H. Williams

‘I personally think honestly disclosing rather than hiding one’s subjective values makes for more honest and trustworthy journalism. But no journalism – from the most stylistically ‘objective’ to the most brazenly opinionated – has any real value unless it is grounded in facts, evidence, and verifiable data.’ – Glenn Greenwald

‘I’ve learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being ‘sarcastic.” – James Fallows

‘I used to be naive. I didn’t realize the value of being a whole performer… People start to care about you when they know more about you and see different aspects of your personality.’ – AJ Lee

‘I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don’t eat them.’ – Jocko Willink

‘In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.’ – Archie Shepp

‘Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I’m walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.’ – J. Courtney Sullivan

‘I’ve always believed that no officer’s life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear… Officers should be forward with their men at the point of impact.’ – Chesty Puller

‘My parents taught me the value of hard work, that people don’t mind working hard as long as they get to share in the prosperity they create.’ – Raphael Warnock

‘It’s not that I don’t value my life. It’s just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.’ – Wendy O. Williams

‘I’m committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.’ – Bob Iger

‘I don’t want to work with directors who use music only to accentuate sound effects. I want to work with people who give music the value it deserves.’ – Joe Hisaishi

‘For me, I value connection a lot, talking to people and connecting. Don’t get me wrong: I enjoy having my own time, but I think it’s really important to have that connection, so living on Mars would be a struggle for me.’ – Asa Butterfield

‘Presence is in the eye and ear and gut of the beholder. When you are totally present in a conversation or in a meeting, others around you perceive you as totally focused on the matter at hand and on being of value to them.’ – Mark Goulston

‘I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.’ – Bo Burnham

‘With Virgin, I’ve just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.’ – Richard Branson

‘Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.’ – Lawrence Lessig

‘I don’t go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.’ – Esther Duflo

‘The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.’ – Ben Horowitz

‘If the cryptocurrency market overall or a digital asset is solving a problem, it’s going to drive some value.’ – Brad Garlinghouse

‘Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Work hard and do it right. Very simple; but very effective. They are morals I got from my mum and dad. And within that are the details. Be respectful. Try and smile, try and enjoy it. They are things that I still value.’ – Sean Dyche

‘All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called ‘mate,’ to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.’ – Maria Montessori

‘I don’t take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are.’ – Leslie Mann

‘In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one – no business, organization, government agency, country – is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that’s how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure – no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.’ – Don Tapscott

‘Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.’ – Charles Krauthammer

‘I want people to continue to be creative and to value creativity.’ – Lil B

‘I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.’ – Guido van Rossum

‘What makes eBay successful – the real value and the real power at eBay – is the community. It’s the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.’ – Pierre Omidyar

‘Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper – but in practice, too many break their pledge.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.’ – Anita Hill

‘You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It’s not purely about money. It’s about how we choose to value human experience.’ – Thomas Heatherwick

‘Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.’ – Warren Buffett

‘I call the blockchain ‘the Internet of value’ and ‘the Internet of trust.’ Because everything becomes trustless. It’s a big distributed ledger. Think of it like an Excel file that’s being maintained and updated and managed by millions of computers around the world.’ – Brock Pierce

‘I like to think I’m a good mechanic for the company. ‘Oh well, we sprung a leak? Call Ambrose; throw him in there.’ I like that because I think it has really upped my value with the company, and I think that they realize nowadays, too, another Dean Ambrose isn’t going to walk through the door anytime soon – or ever.’ – Dean Ambrose

‘I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them… on face value. I think that was how we were both, the way we were.’ – Shane Warne

‘If you don’t know your blood pressure, it’s like not knowing the value of your company.’ – Mehmet Oz

‘In an era of global value chains, worldwide sourcing and the never-ending search for new markets, we must be careful to avoid the proliferation of regional standards. A multilateral approach holds wider benefits for more actors.’ – Roberto Azevedo

‘There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.’ – Colin Angle

‘Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren’t things to think about any more. All that matters is value – the ultimate value of what one does.’ – James Hilton

‘I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can’t say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.’ – Sam Harris

‘If something’s really selfless, then there’s really no value in it for you… there’s only value in it for the world.’ – Jeff Baena

‘The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.’ – Thomas Woods

‘You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to get someone’s movie made if you attach yourself to it, you have to be very thoughtful and have to plan.’ – Chris Pratt

‘Most of us have heard the saying, ‘Cleanliness is next to godliness.’ That’s a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I’m concerned, what’s next to godliness is resourcefulness.’ – Chris Gardner

‘For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.’ – Robert Rainy

‘I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I’m just Olivia.’ – Olivia Culpo

‘Bitcoin’s revolution: an impossible-to-counterfeit digital store of value that can be used as money, that has no sovereign, or central bank involved, that can be sent anywhere instantly at virtually no cost, is irresistible. Anyone who uses it is converted.’ – Max Keiser

‘The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong.’ – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

‘I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I’m so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.’ – Rodney King

‘Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘None of the established museums were treating cartoons seriously. It was considered a lesser art or no art at all, just a way to sell newspapers. Even the syndicates who were dedicated to the cartoons were throwing them out, figuring they had no value after they were printed.’ – Mort Walker

‘I am not quick to call someone a friend. It is OK to have acquaintances and be associates. We make these words sound bad, but it is about understanding everyone’s place in your life. I have a great group of people around me. I value them more than anything.’ – Karen Civil

‘The little things, I can obey. But the big things – how we think, what we value – those you must choose yourself. You can’t let anyone – or any society – determine those for you.’ – Morrie Schwartz

‘It is one thing to think gold has some marvelous store of value because man has no way of inventing more gold or getting it very easily, so it has the advantage of rarity. Believe me, man is capable of somehow creating more bitcoin… They tell you there are rules and they can’t do it. Don’t believe them.’ – Charlie Munger

‘I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.’ – Rachel Corrie

‘Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.’ – Betty Shabazz

‘Investment in people is often regarded as a cost, but it is a source of medium to long-term corporate value.’ – Fumio Kishida

‘The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.’ – Natalia Kills

‘After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in addition to teaching and working on research. I built a program that crawled job boards to determine which skills employers value, which helped Johnson & Wales explore ways to improve its curriculum.’ – Hilary Mason

‘The story about GE that hasn’t been told is the value of an informal place. I think it’s a big thought. I don’t think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal.’ – Jack Welch

‘I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.’ – Paul Dirac

‘Economists agree about economics – and that’s a science – and they disagree about economic policy because that’s a value judgment… I’ve had profound disagreements on policy with the famous Milton Friedman. But, on economics, we agree.’ – Franco Modigliani

‘What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.’ – David Ricardo

‘We really think of Bitcoin as a global, interoperable payment network instead of a store of value.’ – Jeremy Allaire

‘My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.’ – Anthony Minghella

‘The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.’ – Jim Rohn

‘Every life – regardless of background or gender – has equal value.’ – Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber

‘One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.’ – Thomas A. Edison

‘I think the biggest part of being a girl boss in the office, at home, or anywhere you go is just knowing your value.’ – Meghan Markle

‘I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.’ – Gabriela Sabatini

‘When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.’ – Kevin Costner

‘My faith informs everything I think and do. It’s part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.’ – John Edwards

‘Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.’ – John Ralston Saul

‘Is science of any value? 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.’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.’ – Ed Sheeran

‘There is real value in sharing moments that don’t live forever.’ – Evan Spiegel

‘We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors – it is truly an Iowa value.’ – Tom Vilsack

‘I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King’s subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.’ – Joseph Brant

‘The ‘Rule of St. Benedict’ makes it possible for ordinary folk to live lives of quite extraordinary value. The weak have a place to do their best.’ – Basil Hume

‘All lives have an equal value.’ – Melinda Gates

‘You can’t assess the value of an innovation in isolation, you have to consider whose hands it’s in.’ – Hannah Fry

‘There’s great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you’re taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you’re letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.’ – Chellie Pingree

‘The habit of doing more than you are paid for can benefit any business that sells a product or service. Learning and understanding the principle of the mastermind philosophy of networking can increase the value of your network and your net worth.’ – Clay Clark

‘Berta Caceres, a Lenca woman, grew up during the violence that swept through Central America in the 1980s. Her mother, a midwife and social activist, took in and cared for refugees from El Salvador, teaching her young children the value of standing up for disenfranchised people.’ – Greg Grandin

‘The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.’ – Elon Musk

‘Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘My time is really important to me, and where I put it has to be of tremendous value.’ – Sushmita Sen

‘There’s a very fundamental basic value system that I think America was built upon, and that’s mutual respect, honor, integrity and concern for our environment and the right to clean water. And we have moved away from it.’ – Erin Brockovich

‘The New is not a fashion, it is a value.’ – Roland Barthes

‘The value of a loving family cannot be understated.’ – Gary Herbert

‘Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘I’d rather spend my money on clothes. I have a budget. Why not want to look nice? It’s something I just value for myself. Instead of just spending money on cars and stuff, I’d rather buy clothes. It’s just something I like.’ – Terry Rozier

‘A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.’ – Anna Howard Shaw

‘I was not treated like a serious young actress, and that was very hard. It sent me into psychotherapy, which is one of the smartest things I ever did. It taught me that I had to find value in myself.’ – Rita Moreno

‘Once you get people’s attention, you have a greater responsibility to tell them something of value.’ – Tobias Forge

‘What I value most in my friends is loyalty.’ – David Mamet

‘Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.’ – Loretta Young

‘I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life’s value if you don’t see yourself as a member of the family of man.’ – Ralph Waite

‘The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.’ – Camille Paglia

‘My parents are just really down-to-earth, earnest, hardworking people that don’t want for anything. I think that really served me because when you put more value on experience than things, then you’re going to go out and have experiences.’ – Carrie Coon

‘There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. The financial infrastructure is one of them, and the Blockchain is changing the way we think about the transfer of value.’ – Adam Draper

‘One common way of judging whether housing’s price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.’ – Janet Yellen

‘Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.’ – Robert Byrd

‘I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.’ – Anatole France

‘Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.’ – Sydney Madwed

‘Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.’ – David Ricardo

‘I have great confidence in Taiwan’s democracy. I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights, and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.’ – Chen Shui-bian

‘Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.’ – Benjamin Jowett

‘Mother’s Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.’ – Anne Lamott

‘Fundamentally, if people don’t feel like their lives are valued and they don’t value their lives, they’re not going to value their neighbors’ lives.’ – Lori Lightfoot

‘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.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Having come so close to death, I now value just how precious life truly is and want to ride what God gave me until the wheels fall off.’ – Shaun King

‘If a goalkeeper can save you 15-20 points a season, his value is high. It’s like a striker scoring 20 goals a season.’ – Bruce Grobbelaar

‘Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn’t value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.’ – Marisol Nichols

‘Good parents, who are able to maintain the affection and respect of their children and whose offspring admire them and value their good opinion, can be reasonably certain that their values and ways of socialized behaving will be adopted by the next generation.’ – Caterina Fake

‘The challenge is to get everyone to respect music again, to recognize its value.’ – Jay-Z

‘Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.’ – Anthony Bourdain

‘In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.’ – Michael C. Burgess

‘I think it’s becoming cool to have mental toughness or to meditate. It’s a thing, but I don’t think people really understand the value of it.’ – Jaylen Brown

‘As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.’ – Charlton Heston

‘The key to a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms is not an exhaustive survey of every conceivable data structure and its subforms, with memorization of each’s Big-O value and amortized cost.’ – Robert Love

‘Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.’ – Daymond John

‘It’s definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.’ – Suki Waterhouse

‘I’m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they’ve created value in the world.’ – Kevin Systrom

‘The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds – the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.’ – Chuck Jones

‘I reject the idea of work-life balance. The phrase is a bald-faced lie, designed to hang over the human psyche like the Sword of Damocles, because balance presumes an even distribution of weight, of value. But anyone who has ever lived understands that no set of tips or tricks can create a lifestyle equilibrium.’ – Stacey Abrams

‘I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.’ – Barack Obama

‘It’s the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, ‘This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.” – Jake Tapper

‘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.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘I think, for me, the only real value to fame, stuff like that, is that you can then have a lot more creative power to get certain movies made and to do certain things.’ – Alden Ehrenreich

‘There is no religion that was founded on intolerance – and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.’ – Mohamed ElBaradei

‘Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.’ – Rockwell Kent

‘How do you know what people value? Well, you watch what they buy. How do we know what products to create? Well, it’s based on what they value.’ – Peter Senge

‘Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don’t have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.’ – John Green

‘Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick ‘exit.’ It is centered on long-term value creation.’ – Hamdi Ulukaya

‘For those of us that wake up every day and go to our jobs, we know our worth because we know the value we add to the world.’ – Jeannie Mai

‘I’ve got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.’ – Colin Farrell

‘The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘The first core value we have is that everyone deserves a Cinderella experience. And I have experienced a Cinderella experience. And I really believe that most people who’ve come to Rent the Runway have had a Cinderella experience.’ – Jennifer Hyman

‘Anything I ever wanted, I had to work really hard for. I learned the value of saving my money, trying to make something happen, and being entrepreneurial, even as a really young girl.’ – Kris Jenner

‘I hear from patients who say their doctor said, ‘If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won’t harm you, and it may do you some good.’ More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C.’ – Linus Pauling

‘I think it’s important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it’s great I get to travel the world with my daughter.’ – Salma Hayek

‘If the seller has a player that they think is going to have a lot of value, they’re aware of it, protect that value. You have to go get it. That’s the way the trade market works.’ – Theo Epstein

‘An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.’ – Viktor Orban

‘Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better – they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.’ – Andrew Young

‘A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.’ – Eliza Farnham

‘What you believe, what you value, how you live, matters.’ – Mitt Romney

‘Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.’ – Adam Clarke

‘Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith

‘I don’t think I could truly value human love until I developed divine love.’ – Penn Badgley

‘Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.’ – George H. W. Bush

‘I had a lot of jobs before I got into music. When I was 15, I was a copy boy for the ‘Evening Chronicle’ in Newcastle. Then I was a journalist. I value those experiences – I got to see how the world works.’ – Mark Knopfler

‘I’ve always loved reporting from the field most of all. There’s something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that’s always appealed to me. I think there’s great value to bearing witness to these events as they’re actually happening.’ – Anderson Cooper

‘We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.’ – Harrison Ford

‘Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.’ – Dian Fossey

‘I think there are a lot of shows out there that value being hip or cool over being funny and heartfelt.’ – Alex Hirsch

‘It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.’ – Robert Musil

‘We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.’ – Rick Renzi

‘The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life.’ – Nick Saban

‘The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘It’s nice to have a sister with whom you can talk about your work and what happens in the industry. I value that.’ – Emily Deschanel

‘The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.’ – Steven Biko

‘The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.’ – John C. Stennis

‘Internet is a good and convenient device for us for easy communication. It has lots of value.’ – Ian Gillan

‘For me, democratic socialism is about – really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.’ – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

‘Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.’ – Adam Driver

‘Kyrie Irving, before he even played one game of college basketball, had 7,000 fans on Twitter. Seven thousand. So these kids these days are put on this pedestal up here. I really think it discourages the value of hard work and of patience.’ – Jay Williams

‘Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family – that’s impossible. It lies, instead, in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant strangers, their lives have the same value as the lives of those we love.’ – Paul Bloom

‘It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.’ – Victoria Osteen

‘I choose films for their artistic value. I don’t need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won’t take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.’ – Brad Renfro

‘The modern meaning of life’s end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?’ – Don DeLillo

‘Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.’ – James Truslow Adams

‘Free speech is not just another value. It’s the foundation of Western civilization.’ – Jordan Peterson

‘When you say ‘follow me on Twitter,’ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.’ – Nipsey Hussle

‘The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That’s very important in my life.’ – Kinky Friedman

‘The value of a good education has never left me.’ – Michelle Pfeiffer

‘I think that I know the value of a dollar.’ – Dolly Parton

”MAS*H,’ to me, was about something. It had value beyond the laughs.’ – Mike Farrell

‘Be able to see people’s humanity. I think the way that you do that and see people for more than their surface value is, say, you’re reading something in the news: the gender pay gap, or gay adoption, anything that involves a group of people being marginalized.’ – Jonathan Van Ness

‘You want your customers to value your service.’ – Jeff Bezos

‘I describe the relationship between man and woman as a Hegelian relationship between master and slave. As long as men are able to increase their sexual value through work, fame or wealth, while women are only powerful through their body, beauty and youth, nothing will change.’ – Elfriede Jelinek

‘The future of the television industry is changing at an unstoppable rate, and it is exciting to share my experience and thoughts on how this will change the value of content in the digital space.’ – Dana Brunetti

‘I own nothing of value at all. I spend money on experiences.’ – Miranda Hart

‘Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.’ – Albert Einstein

‘You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.’ – Jim Rohn

‘Death is important for a couple reasons. The first is that death creates scarcity in our life, which therefore gives our decisions meaning and value. From a practical point of view, it therefore makes sense that we keep our own deaths in mind when deciding how to use our time.’ – Mark Manson

‘What’s valuable to me has become clearer as I’ve got older. To me, it’s about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.’ – Brad Pitt

‘I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.’ – Shelby Foote

‘It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.’ – Hu Shih

‘I suppose in the back of my mind I was always one of those guys who had a disdain for money. It had a value if you wanted to buy something, but if you didn’t want to buy something, you didn’t need it.’ – Chuck Feeney

‘In an economy where more and more value is in information – is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free – any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well.’ – Mitch Kapor

‘The first thing you learn when you’re blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you’ve got to get to the point, you can’t waste people’s time, you’ve got to give them some value for their limited attention span.’ – Alex Tabarrok

‘All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility.’ – Steven Hatfill

‘For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.’ – Michael Rostovtzeff

‘Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that’s the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers.’ – Clayton M. Christensen

‘Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.’ – Elijah Parish Lovejoy

‘I don’t hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable – and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example – I do value their counsel.’ – Simon Winchester

‘Plutocrats were the chief beneficiaries of so-called neoliberalism and the suite of political changes it brought beginning in the late 1970s – deregulation, weaker protection for unions, the shareholder value movement, and the subsequent inflation of executive compensation.’ – Chrystia Freeland

‘A woman of faith is blessed by faithful men in her life who hold the priesthood of God and honor this privilege: her father, bishop, husband, brothers, sons. They value her and the divine gifts given by God to His daughter. They sustain and encourage, and they understand the great mission of her life as a woman. They love her; they bless her.’ – Margaret D. Nadauld

‘We’ve enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don’t discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn’t considered morbid or antisocial. But that’s totally gone.’ – Cate Blanchett

‘No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.’ – Ovid

‘Nobody will ever value you more than the guys that drafted you.’ – A. J. Green

‘As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘I hope I’m in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.’ – Paul Walker

‘Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.’ – Charles Lamb

‘When you believe in yourself, and you always give 100% in a relationship, you’re very confident in the value of your love. But for some people, there’s that feeling that the grass is always greener.’ – Ciara

‘Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.’ – Richard Perle

‘Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can’t always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.’ – Barry Lam

‘Women’s value has been under-recognized for far too long.’ – Sidney Sheldon

‘Whatever business you’re in – it doesn’t matter – it’s going to commoditize over time. It’s going to devalue. You’ve got to keep moving it to a higher value.’ – Ginni Rometty

‘I’m a living testament to the value of immigration. I escaped a civil war, and I came to Canada as a refugee, and they gave my family protection. I did my best to pay that country back, and I think I did that.’ – Chamath Palihapitiya

‘Hoover also loved new media the way Millennials do now. He was the first person to ever appear on television. As commerce secretary, he standardized the radio industry so businesses could harness its commercial value. He didn’t e-mail my great-grandmother a marriage proposal – but he did cable her one, all the way from Australia.’ – Margaret Hoover

‘You want to show your people that you value them, and you’re not going to hurt them just to get a little more money in the short term. Not furloughing people breeds loyalty. It breeds a sense of security. It breeds a sense of trust.’ – Herb Kelleher

‘A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.’ – David Choe

‘What may not have value to you today may have value to an entire population, entire people, an entire way of life tomorrow. And if you don’t stand up for it, then who will?’ – Jean-Michel Jarre

‘It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.’ – Ezra Pound

‘If people want to believe that the organic food has better nutritive value, it’s up to them to make that foolish decision. But there’s absolutely no research that shows that organic foods provide better nutrition.’ – Norman Borlaug

‘What you risk reveals what you value.’ – Jeanette Winterson

‘I do think there’s some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.’ – Meghan Markle

‘I really appreciate working with Skip and Stephen A. and value their opinions. There’s definitely been growing pains, but I know they have my best interests at heart. Sometimes I make mistakes, and they tell me, but it’s tough love, and I want to hear it, and we have natural chemistry on and off the air.’ – Molly Qerim

‘The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.’ – Karl Marx

‘I think very early on, my sisters and I understood the value of nature and what it can do for us, and that we are part of nature. Even if we are all seemingly intelligent beings and we’re at the top of the food chain, that doesn’t mean that we have to remove ourselves from nature.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘As a consultant at McKinsey, I learned the value of data and the ability to shape that information into an answer.’ – Pete Buttigieg

‘I choose not to see my parents because I value myself – and they didn’t value me or my mind.’ – Tara Westover

‘I feel like there’s value in experience.’ – Kevin Harvick

‘Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.’ – Peter De Vries

‘Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.’ – Bill Ackman

‘The first step in empowerment is taking control of your health, respecting yourself and understanding and celebrating the value you bring to your family and society.’ – Milind Soman

‘I don’t think in terms of that bizarre tautology ‘value for money’ in my literary and journalistic work – and nor will I in my academic role. However, if I don’t believe I’m helping my students towards a fuller and more empowering relationship with the world, then I’ll resign.’ – Will Self

‘I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.’ – Lucille Ball

‘I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

‘We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.’ – Anne Wilson Schaef

‘One of the most powerful networking practices is to provide immediate value to a new connection. This means the moment you identify a way to help someone, take action.’ – Lewis Howes

‘From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.’ – Seth Low

‘Our long-standing philosophy that our diverse suppliers must provide high-quality goods and services at competitive prices adds great value to our business.’ – Debra L. Reed

‘Some kind of clutter is difficult – letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers – but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I’m always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.’ – Gretchen Rubin

‘As more wealth and political power is amassed – as bitcoins rise in value – Congress and various lobbying groups will be influenced to an ever greater extent by the interests of Bitcoin owners who – in turn – will lobby to keep the Internet and Bitcoin alive and growing.’ – Max Keiser

‘Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.’ – Buddy Ebsen

‘I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I’ve got to admire someone to really like them deeply – to value them as friends.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘My first job at General Motors was as a quality inspector on the assembly line. I was checking fits between hoods and fenders. I had a little scale and clipboard. At one point, I was probably examining 60 jobs an hour during an eight-hour shift. A job like that teaches you to value all the people who do a job like that.’ – Mary Barra

‘Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.’ – William Temple

‘Value is what you get.’ – Warren Buffett

‘People are looking for more than a faster and faster PC. It has to do what they want. Will it fill some void, add some value, deliver something that they can’t do previously at a price that people are willing to pay for?’ – Ted Waitt

‘Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn’t pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.’ – John Major

‘You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That’s what natural history programmes should be for.’ – David Attenborough

‘The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.’ – Maria Montessori

‘Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.’ – Jean Cocteau

‘I come from a part of Nigeria where a lot of value is placed on implicit communication. The ‘well brought up’ child is the one who can pick up nonverbal cues from adults and interpret them correctly.’ – Ayobami Adebayo

‘Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.’ – Alyson Stoner

‘There’s value in being a normal person.’ – Kelsea Ballerini

‘Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.’ – Bob Wells

‘There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback.’ – Anant Agarwal

‘I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.’ – Kitty Kelley

‘At the end of the day, TV is supposed to be entertaining. But it’s important for me that there’s some take-away value from it.’ – Lisa Ling

‘Despite the value to Canada, our country lags in competitiveness in the global social economy.’ – Craig Kielburger

‘In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it’s not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.’ – David Friedman

‘We don’t really look at the stock, you know? Because for us, it’s about the long term. And so we’re very much focused on long-term shareholder value but not the short-term kind of stuff.’ – Tim Cook

‘You have to think of the blockchain as a new utility. It is a new utility network for moving value, moving assets.’ – William Mougayar

‘If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands of years as a store of value and medium of exchange.’ – Paul Singer

‘I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.’ – Vivien Leigh

‘I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.’ – Ella Maillart

‘President John F. Kennedy demonstrated the value of presidential credibility at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, when he sent emissaries to America’s allies in October 1962 to secure support for the quarantine of Cuba.’ – Antony Blinken

‘Discord was primarily for gamers, but for some reason, that’s the platform where all crypto activity is happening and it’s not at all user friendly. In fact, it rewards people for being the quickest to respond, rather than being thoughtful or adding value.’ – Randi Zuckerberg

‘The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.’ – Ellis Peters

‘As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one’s talent or value.’ – Phylicia Rashad

‘You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.’ – Alan Greenspan

‘In my years, I had the opportunity to observe peoples and countries. I see some countries doing well, others failing, and my analysis of things is that whether you fail or succeed is a function of your value system.’ – Mahathir Mohamad

‘I’m not willing to compromise my goals for monetary value.’ – Ben Askren

‘A judge’s role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgments and policy choices the legislature has made.’ – Paul Watford

‘When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.’ – Simone Weil

‘Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘My sister is raised to know her value and to know that she stands behind no man. You know, when she gets a husband, you stand side by side, equal partnership. You stand behind no one cause you have to lift each other up. You can’t do that if you’re 30 percent of the value in your relationship or the household.’ – Aldis Hodge

‘Things I say have value and I would love for you to value them, however you get it.’ – Lil Wayne

‘The biggest mistake anyone can make is being too strict. That stress far outweighs the value of what you’re doing. There’s a disciplined way to do things.’ – Laird Hamilton

‘Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.’ – David Ricardo

‘The emergence of open Internet protocols for value exchange, today led by the global adoption of Bitcoin’s blockchain, paves the way for value to move as freely as information and data move on the Internet today.’ – Jeremy Allaire

‘In the U.S., the country that has always been lecturing the world about the value of freedoms – of freedom of speech, of everyone’s right to speak up – the U.S. has now become a beacon, a leader, in this movement to shut everyone up. That’s so disappointing.’ – Margarita Simonyan

‘Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.’ – Max Weber

‘We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.’ – Paul Hawken

‘To be is to be the value of a variable.’ – Willard Van Orman Quine

‘I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.’ – Sally Field

‘When you’ve seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what’s important.’ – Bob Saget

‘A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail.’ – T. E. Lawrence

‘Housing wealth – the net equity held by households, consisting of the value of their homes minus their mortgage debt – is the most important source of wealth for all but those at the very top.’ – Janet Yellen

‘Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that’s the way it should be, I sort of have a love affair with my work. Having said that, many of us work far too hard and we don’t put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘A career is like a house: it’s made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn’t bad… We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.’ – Peter Senge

‘Monetizing by creating more value for a Venmo user makes a ton of sense to me. But other forms of monetization that are more intrusive, like in advertising or something like that, the jury is really still out for me.’ – Dan Schulman

‘If the asset solves a real problem for a real customer, then there’ll be value in the asset.’ – Brad Garlinghouse

‘There’s a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.’ – Karen Thompson Walker

‘As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.’ – George Weinberg

‘Making movies is eating candy. It’s a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it’s like, you know, a kid in a candy store!’ – Phillip Noyce

‘A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.’ – Elfriede Jelinek

‘I saw from a very young age the value of clean water in communities in Africa. I made a promise to myself that once I reached a time and place in my career where I could do more, I would.’ – Malcolm Brogdon

‘I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.’ – Simin Daneshvar

‘God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘I’ve become a lot more relaxed about my career, but maybe that’s a part of growing up. I realise there are things I hold dear and value, aside from professional achievements.’ – Martin Henderson

‘Work is valued by the social value of the worker.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘It’s just upsetting how the world is – the need and the necessity to override the value of life.’ – Shawn Crahan

‘Your first projects aren’t the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn – you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.’ – Steve Wozniak

‘Individuals should be able to monetise their own data – that’s their own human value – not to be exploited.’ – Brittany Kaiser

‘Value can mean a price. Value can mean exclusivity. Value can mean, ‘I can’t get it anywhere else, and this is really something I want.” – Mindy Grossman

‘The unique value that Microsoft can add is around productivity and platforms. Productivity is broadly something we can uniquely do.’ – Satya Nadella

‘If your great-great-grandfather participated on the Confederate side, and you hold some sentimental value to that, and you want to fly the flag and hang their picture up in your home, that’s fine. But it should not be on anything that taxpayers pay for, because taxpayers are a part of the Union, not the Confederacy.’ – Killer Mike

‘I’ve never valued material things. I’ve always been more attached to people. The pursuit of material things takes time, and I realized my time is very valuable especially during the season. My time with my kids, what I do to take care of my body, and of course any intellectual pursuits I may have on the side. Those are all things that I value.’ – J. J. Redick

‘The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.’ – Fernand Leger

‘Nobody really needs a painting. It’s something you kind of create value for in a way that you don’t with a company. It’s an act of collective faith what an object is worth. Maintaining that value system is part of what a dealer does, not just making a transaction but making sure that important art feels important.’ – Larry Gagosian

‘I know the price of lettuce. You need to understand price and value. You buy the best lettuce you can at the best price you can.’ – Alice Walton

‘Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.’ – Michael Shellenberger

‘I believe in the value of life. I have fought for that value. I am the only candidate to carry a right to life bill, protecting unborn victims and ensuring that all life should be protected.’ – Ryan Zinke

‘There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.’ – Kevin O’Leary

‘Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.’ – Ayelet Waldman

‘We get paid for bringing value to the market place.’ – Jim Rohn

‘There’s something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic value.’ – Kehinde Wiley

‘I’m a big advocate of a work-for-pay setup rather than an allowance that isn’t attached to chores – it’s a great way to impart the value of money to your children.’ – Suze Orman

‘Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn’t worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.’ – Ezra Pound

‘I’m not a really firm believer in theatre that is ‘about anything.’ I don’t think theatre can be about anything other than the people who show up and the value that they hold.’ – Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

‘To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.’ – Thomas A. Edison

‘At the height of the Enron mania, the company’s market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘Filecoin is a token with fundamental value. Filecoin is like Bitcoin, but miners amass hard drives instead of hashing computers.’ – Juan Benet

‘Personally, I think the silent films were more effective for L&H, but the sound was of great value in enhancing the effects – dialog eliminated a lot of action & sight gags – I always feel that ‘action’ speaks louder than words.’ – Stan Laurel

‘When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.’ – Jules Verne

‘No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.’ – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

‘I collect objects I fall in love with more than antiques per se. Value is not a criteria that attracts me to something.’ – Dries van Noten

‘The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.’ – Roger Scruton

‘And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.’ – Rowan Atkinson

‘High school was interesting. For a lot of people, high school was just a big social experiment, and I think the value of high school was not so much learning how to be a great student… but I think it’s learning how to interact with people and be social. I would say that in that endeavor, I completely failed.’ – Jonny Kim

‘The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.’ – Elizabeth Bowen

‘In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.’ – Tim Jackson

‘Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.’ – Sonia Sotomayor

‘We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.’ – George Farquhar

‘I remember that, one day, I was visiting one training center in the 1990s that was teaching people how to fix Volkswagen engines from the 1960s, which were no longer sold. So you were training people on a skill that had zero value. The reason is that they hadn’t received any new equipment in 20 years.’ – James Heckman

‘Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.’ – John Barth

‘Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘Pretty uniformly, people want the benefits of bitcoin and the blockchain – near-instant transfers, globally available on any Internet-connected device, highly secure, and nearly-free value transfers.’ – Jeremy Allaire

‘Public service is a core value for people of my generation.’ – Stephen A. Schwarzman

‘Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.’ – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

‘Seeing the body heal itself and come back from injuries is something that just makes me value my body and health even more. I love everything about it.’ – Jamie Anderson

‘Gold is a commodity; over the long run, as we look back, it has not been a good investment. You can’t look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn’t give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn’t give you dividends.’ – Michael Lee-Chin

‘My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and adds to the complex beauty of the symphony.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.’ – Dan Gilbert

‘Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.’ – Luigi Pirandello

‘I have a great agency! It’s definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.’ – Suki Waterhouse

‘I’ve been lucky enough that in the U.K., I’ve done shows that have aired once a week. I make a show there that runs seasonally, and we make one episode a week, and that is great – the value of time. You can really think and finesse what you want to do.’ – James Corden

‘It’s a slippery slope to put all your value into the vanity of what your body looks like. Your body is going to deteriorate.’ – Jacob Elordi

‘The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.’ – Aung San Suu Kyi

‘Sport has taught me never to be jealous of someone or insecure if somebody is doing well. It’s taught me teamwork and the value of patience. Even If I lose, I know that I’ve actually not lost.’ – Ritika Singh

”Larry Crowne’ is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it’s about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice.’ – Tom Hanks

‘Our national motto is ‘In God we Trust,’ reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.’ – Marco Rubio

‘Any UFC fan has got to experience a live event at least one time. The energy and the production value is incredible. The experience is like being at a rock concert.’ – Bruce Buffer

‘The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.’ – Gary Bauer

‘If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.’ – Christopher Meloni

‘After dealing with so much dark energy and investigating violent people for my job, I value creatures with pure souls – animals, especially dogs. I believe a higher power/god created these creatures to give us balance from people who can be truly evil. I am an active voice and supporter against animal cruelty.’ – Zak Bagans

‘When I started at Bloomingdale’s as a buyer, Alexander’s was a discounter across the street, and every time Alexander’s had something that we had at Bloomingdale’s, we’d have to meet price. I didn’t really want to be in a business where I had no control over my inventory, the value of my inventory.’ – Mickey Drexler

‘I think it’s really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.’ – Barry Jenkins

‘Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.’ – Paul Hawken

‘In the Eighties, Japanese fashion designers brought a new type of creativity; they brought something Europe didn’t have. There was a bit of a shock effect, but it probably helped the Europeans wake up to a new value.’ – Issey Miyake

‘The IMF and other multilateral institutions do not appear to have prevented nations from manipulating the value of their own currencies.’ – Steve Mnuchin

‘Our goal is simple. It is to continue to inspire people through my father’s legacy. There is a lot of value in continuing to put that energy out into the consciousness.’ – Shannon Lee

‘I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.’ – Heber J. Grant

‘Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.’ – Michael Polanyi

‘I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there’s some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.’ – Meghan Markle

‘The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.’ – Dennis Prager

‘If I put a value on my music, and no one’s prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can’t work.’ – Robert Smith

‘Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.’ – Brooke Shields

‘Through my unique style of playing, I want to prove that you don’t have to conform to be accepted. The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are.’ – Lindsey Stirling

‘The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It’s about making sure that it’s a winning combination. It’s really about giving people value for their money.’ – Vivian Campbell

‘My dad always said you have to value and respect the responsibility you’ve been given. When I coach, I take that responsibility seriously because I know people have trusted in me, and there are thousands of supporters whose emotions are bound up in what we do.’ – Unai Emery

‘Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.’ – Alice Meynell

‘At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something that will seem to have been of value when they die.’ – Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

‘My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.’ – Leonardo DiCaprio

‘We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down the centuries, this spirit returns.’ – Dario Fo

‘I’m proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you’ll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.’ – Charlie Munger

‘A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.’ – Lafcadio Hearn

‘You can certainly get an idea of the value of memory if your memories can carry you out into the world no matter how utterly dissatisfied you may be with the present and wish you could get away from it.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘The value of having numbers – data – is that they aren’t subject to someone else’s interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.’ – Emily Oster

‘Only the ideas that we really live have any value.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.’ – Irene Rosenfeld

‘Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘There’s no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they’re really forming their personalities, their personas, really.’ – James Heckman

‘I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.’ – Matthew Desmond

‘In Europe they call geeks ‘smart people,’ and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn’t value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.’ – James Marsters

‘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

‘Horses are the brand value of ‘Wertheimer Freres.” – Alain Wertheimer

‘Mostly, when you are shooting for action or intimate scenes, and you need to hold them, it takes away the mood if you both are not in sync. I have faced such situations and I think having a good bond with your co-stars only adds value to the scene.’ – Abhinav Shukla

‘Silicon Valley has a lot of noise, a lot of hype. People are very excited about all of the Facebook stuff, Facebook applications. It’s just been a huge hype over the last year when actually… there isn’t really that much value.’ – Jawed Karim

‘The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.’ – Elliot Richardson

‘When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.’ – Stephen Covey

‘Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.’ – James O’Shaughnessy

‘Perceived value is paramount for most diners; a feeling of satisfaction that what you’ve paid for is commensurate with what you’ve received. That is, provided your expectations are rational.’ – Melissa Leong

‘I believe in the value of life. I believe we must prepare our children for tomorrow with the family values of my grandparents.’ – Ryan Zinke

‘What’s really happening is that every bank in the country is experimenting with the blockchain and experimenting with bitcoin to figure out where the value is. For the first time ever, they’re working hand in hand with startups. Banks are asking startups for help to build products.’ – Adam Draper

‘Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.’ – Tadashi Yanai

‘As money, Bitcoin achieves two objectives; it’s both a unit of transaction as well as being a store of value. The U.S. dollar, for example, is a unit of transaction, but it is not a store of value.’ – Max Keiser

‘First, as I’ve always said, it all starts with product, which means having the right assortment, styles, and fits. Second is price, where we strive to offer the best quality, style, and design at a fair value. This is critically important, given the highly promotional environment we are operating in. And third, traffic.’ – Mickey Drexler

‘As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.’ – George Mason

‘My mum and dad are quite hippyish, so I’m pretty naive. I take everyone at face value.’ – Noel Fielding

‘Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.’ – August Wilson

‘Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.’ – Jean de La Fontaine

‘Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.’ – Maynard Webb

‘The struggle I went through has value.’ – Clara Hughes

‘We’re in a world where there’s famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it’s very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?’ – Leonard Cohen

‘The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘Playing basketball taught me the value of determination and teamwork.’ – Vlade Divac

‘Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don’t feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.’ – Andie MacDowell

‘Clothes are particularly hard to value. While cars and high-tech gadgets – Maseratis, Audemars Piguet watches, and first-generation iPhones – offer not only performance but the cachet of a visibly rich item, clothing does less to convey what you spent on it. Clothes get stained and snagged, and they go out of style quickly.’ – Christina Binkley

‘Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.’ – Irene Rosenfeld

‘If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.’ – Gary Bauer

‘We use the block chain to share value, just like Internet protocol lets us share communication. Our goal is to build a global, international bank that is instant, global, and free. Sending payments should be as easy as sending an email.’ – Jeremy Allaire

‘We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.’ – Georges Duhamel

‘The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.’ – Wyndham Lewis

‘If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.’ – Andre Maurois

‘Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.’ – J. Paul Getty

‘The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.’ – Pope Paul VI

‘There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.’ – Charles Dudley Warner

‘Value your words. Each one may be the last.’ – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

‘Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England – where liberal value have deep historic roots.’ – Vladimir Putin

‘Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.’ – Donald Rumsfeld

‘Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.’ – William Hazlitt

‘Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.’ – Charles Lindbergh

‘Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.’ – Juan Antonio Samaranch

‘A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.’ – Maurice Maeterlinck

‘Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.’ – Raoul Vaneigem

‘You are not born for fame if you don’t know the value of time.’ – Luc de Clapiers

‘We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.’ – Barbara Ehrenreich

‘Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.’ – Konrad Lorenz

‘Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.’ – Anatole France

‘My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.’ – James Thurber

‘The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances.’ – Stephen Bayley

‘You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.’ – Henry James

‘If I have any justification for having lived it’s simply, I’m nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There’s some value in that.’ – Arthur Miller

‘There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.’ – Bernard de Mandeville

‘Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.’ – Thomas Arnold

‘It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.’ – Greil Marcus

‘Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.’ – Paul Theroux

‘Never underestimate the value of cold cash.’ – Gregory Nunn

‘The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.’ – Matthew Hale

‘The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.’ – Morris Hite

‘Forget goals. Value the process.’ – Jim Bouton

‘If we took Chaucer’s writings at face value, we’d have to conclude he was a complete drip.’ – John Hutton

‘Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman’s counsel.’ – George Chapman

‘A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘Value people on their potential, not on their history.’ – Bo Bennett

‘Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.’ – John McCain

‘Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.’ – Brad Henry

‘I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.’ – Tom Coburn

‘For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.’ – Patty Murray

‘Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘I’m a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.’ – Christina Applegate

‘I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.’ – Oded Fehr

‘Any experience can be transformed into something of value.’ – Vash Young

‘Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.’ – Chuck Hagel

‘Privatizing Social Security doesn’t make sense, and it’s out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.’ – Debbie Stabenow

‘A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It’s a core value – it’s common sense – it’s important to keeping and growing jobs – and it’s mainstream!’ – Tim Pawlenty

‘The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.’ – Norbert Wiener

‘LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.’ – Alan Perlis

‘I never read reviews. I’m not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.’ – Hayao Miyazaki

‘So our films had a lot more to them than entertainment value, and I’m glad that a lot of people recognize that now. People realize now the value of them as educational.’ – Ray Harryhausen

‘I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.’ – Bob Weir

‘If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.’ – Brad Sherman

‘I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.’ – Buchi Emecheta

‘I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.’ – Ed Case

‘Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. ‘Don’t bother us with politics’, respond those who don’t want to learn.’ – Richard Stallman

‘I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you’ll find a dozen or so who are neither.’ – William Trevor

‘I don’t value authority. I don’t value the systems. I don’t value patriarchal religion. I don’t value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I’m not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.’ – Susan Powter

‘I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.’ – Rob Bishop

‘I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.’ – Sissy Spacek

‘Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.’ – James E. Rogers

‘Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.’ – Alex Lowe

‘It’s the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.’ – Alex Lowe

‘Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.’ – Andrew Taylor Still

‘Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.’ – Sidney Hook

‘The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.’ – William Scranton

‘Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.’ – Daniel De Leon

‘According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.’ – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

‘All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.’ – Edmund Waller

‘I try stuff. I synthesize what’s of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.’ – Herbie Hancock

‘The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.’ – Herbie Hancock

‘The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.’ – Herbie Hancock

‘I don’t care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.’ – Michael Graves

‘I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.’ – Howard Barker

‘There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.’ – Elizabeth Joan Smith

‘The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God’s message.’ – Cat Stevens

‘From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between… and sometimes in the same moment.’ – David Hyde Pierce

‘Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.’ – Mortimer Adler

‘The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that’s of value.’ – Leonard Orr

‘I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.’ – Shannon Hoon

‘Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.’ – Joe Wilson

‘I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair’s Britain, but I can’t work up much affection for the culture we’ve created for ourselves: it’s too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.’ – Jonathan Coe

‘It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.’ – Kenneth L. Pike

‘I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.’ – Friedrich August von Hayek

‘What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.’ – Stephan Jenkins

‘I’ve been lucky. I’ve met a lot of baseball people, and I’ve learned to value people who talk – people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.’ – Roger Angell

‘With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.’ – Andrew Shue

‘My family… always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.’ – Emeril Lagasse

‘A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.’ – Paul Scofield

‘So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining.’ – Chad Lowe

‘I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.’ – Chen Shui-bian

‘I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.’ – Rowan Williams

‘In 2003, the value of Airbus’s orders was more than twice as much as Boeing’s.’ – Norm Dicks

‘That’s a very critical phase in customer service because you can start to really understand what part of customer service has value to customers and what part is bothering customers.’ – Sanjay Kumar

‘We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there’s nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.’ – Tom Tancredo

‘A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they’re really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.’ – Jena Malone

‘I think sleep’s really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.’ – Jena Malone

‘Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans – which the corn laws in a great measure do – and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.’ – Joseph Hume

‘It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.’ – James Cash Penney

‘I don’t know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right.’ – John Anderson

‘You remember all those phrases about how ‘these people’ – Asians – don’t value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.’ – Neil Sheehan

‘The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it’s about that and not about aging or death.’ – Daniel Petrie

‘In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.’ – Joshua Leonard

‘The past has infinite value if one learns from it.’ – Ken Hensley

‘They put their feelers out for all the names and then they’ll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn’t matter how much they love you, there’s a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go.’ – Josh Holloway

‘When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser’s country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.’ – Carroll Quigley

‘It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.’ – Christopher Dawson

‘The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.’ – James J. Gibson

‘Everyone recognizes that’s a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn’t affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don’t affect the aggregate value of the firm.’ – Merton Miller

‘Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.’ – Eliot Engel

‘The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.’ – Gavin Newsom

‘This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.’ – Josiah Warren

‘It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.’ – Ninon de L’Enclos

‘Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.’ – Charles Vest

‘By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.’ – Michael N. Castle

‘And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.’ – Utada Hikaru

‘We need someone who is a strong representative of our value system.’ – Kenneth Lay

‘Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.’ – Robert Fortune

‘My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value – I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.’ – Mike Honda

‘My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn’t want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.’ – Orhan Pamuk

‘In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.’ – Doc Hastings

‘I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.’ – Frank B. Kellogg

‘I think it’s good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you’ve gone too far.’ – Peter Coyote

‘While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.’ – Alan Autry

‘Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.’ – Bill Toomey

‘While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation’s seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.’ – Mike Simpson

‘Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.’ – Mike Rogers

‘Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It’s probably more Western than U.S. per se.’ – David Foster Wallace

‘Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals.’ – Jim Barksdale

‘I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community.’ – Samuel Wilson

‘From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.’ – Alfred Rosenberg

‘Except for a few guitar chords, everything I’ve learned in my life that is of any value I’ve learned from women.’ – Glenn Frey

‘I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don’t need to follow the market so closely.’ – Maria Bartiromo

‘I am providing a service that many people obviously value.’ – Matthew Lesko

‘I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.’ – Kenny Loggins

‘The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.’ – Thomas Menino

‘My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.’ – Herbert Read

‘It’s important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.’ – Michael Nesmith

‘It’s the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you’re just living the same life that everybody else is living what’s the point?’ – Todd Rundgren

‘For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.’ – Fritz Todt

‘Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn’t money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it’s not the end.’ – Robert Redford

‘If you come back from the dead, you don’t have the same value system, I think.’ – Sigourney Weaver

‘Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.’ – Jay Inslee

‘Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.’ – Leo Ornstein

‘Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people – ‘if you value it, vote for it’ – and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.’ – Anne Campbell

‘She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I’ll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics.’ – Carly Patterson

‘We’re going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you’ve always expected from Playstation – a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.’ – Ian Jackson

‘It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women’s value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.’ – Andrew Cohen

‘When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music – they are music.’ – Dinah Shore

‘I’m tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.’ – L. Neil Smith

‘We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.’ – Jesse Helms

‘There are things that I value now that I didn’t when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.’ – Matthew Sweet

‘You know that they’re not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time.’ – Matthew Sweet

‘The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.’ – Jesse James Garrett

‘Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.’ – John Polanyi

‘Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don’t give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.’ – Adriana Lima

‘I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.’ – James L. Brooks

‘We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.’ – James Hillman

‘If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.’ – William Greider

‘When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.’ – John Buchanan Robinson

‘Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide – how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.’ – Todd Gitlin

‘It’s just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material – that they’re worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn’t happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.’ – Danny Elfman

‘The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.’ – Michael C. Burgess

‘If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It’s very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that’s never been more clearly evident than in today’s NBA game.’ – Julius Erving

‘I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.’ – Thomas R. Cech

‘In my professional work with the Agency, by the late ’70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency’s impact on American policy.’ – Aldrich Ames

‘For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.’ – David F. Houston

‘The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted.’ – David F. Houston

‘The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.’ – David F. Houston

‘People don’t think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.’ – Henry Reed

‘One is that that’s the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that’s of value to Web sites.’ – Jay Chiat

‘Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.’ – Jeane Kirkpatrick

‘Actors don’t have real value.’ – Uwe Boll

‘It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.’ – William Graham Sumner

‘Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.’ – Rene Daumal

‘All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.’ – David Gill

‘The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something that depended not only on the three-month interest rate, but on other interest rates as well.’ – John Hull

‘Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.’ – Nassau William Senior

‘Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.’ – Peter Bart

‘But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.’ – Samuel Alexander

‘Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs).’ – Dmitri Mendeleev

‘If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.’ – John Drinkwater

‘My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.’ – Matthew Modine

‘I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.’ – Elia Kazan

‘I question the value of stars. I think they’re overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.’ – Elia Kazan

‘Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.’ – Rudolf Hilferding

‘Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.’ – Rudolf Hilferding

‘The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.’ – Rudolf Hilferding

‘Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices.’ – Rudolf Hilferding

‘It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.’ – Rudolf Hilferding

‘And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there’s a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn’t work, so I think there’s a definite value there.’ – Lance Ito

‘But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.’ – Lafcadio Hearn

‘I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one’s art and exaggerates one’s value.’ – Camille Pissarro

‘If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.’ – Edward Hopper

‘The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.’ – Edward Hopper

‘Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.’ – Giraldus Cambrensis

‘All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.’ – Richard Le Gallienne

‘But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.’ – Van Morrison

‘The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There’s a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.’ – Lance Ito

‘What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man’s face right after he has learned of his wife’s death?’ – Jessica Savitch

‘I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.’ – Nat King Cole

‘I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.’ – Peter Stuyvesant

‘Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.’ – Constantin Brancusi

‘A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.’ – Howard Staunton

‘A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.’ – David Ricardo

‘As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.’ – David Ricardo

‘If a commodity were in no way useful, – in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, – it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.’ – David Ricardo

‘If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.’ – David Ricardo

‘In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.’ – David Ricardo

‘The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase.’ – David Ricardo

‘The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.’ – Joshua Reynolds

‘The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.’ – Lascelles Abercrombie

‘It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.’ – Carroll O’Connor

‘Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.’ – Leland Stanford

‘The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.’ – Leland Stanford

‘People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.’ – Daniel Nathans

‘Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.’ – Gregory Bateson

‘On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn’t necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.’ – Jamie Zawinski

‘We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn’t work out like that.’ – Laura Dern

‘My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.’ – Lord Mountbatten

‘He’s part of the product and will make no bones about creating that image to bring the value up in his product, bring the value up in everything he touches.’ – Marla Maples

‘Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.’ – Krist Novoselic

‘My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.’ – Lance Loud

‘The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.’ – Carlisle Floyd

‘In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.’ – Roman Jakobson

‘The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.’ – Roman Jakobson

‘The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.’ – Edward Carpenter

‘Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.’ – Edward Carpenter

‘Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.’ – Fredrik Bajer

‘Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That’s the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.’ – John Guare

‘People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.’ – John Guare

‘Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.’ – John W. Snow

‘For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn’t enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?’ – Elle Macpherson

‘The value of having a computer, to me, is that it’ll remember everything you do. It’s a databank.’ – John Cale

‘If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald’s hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.’ – Lana Wachowski

‘The value of tolerance is central to living in today’s world – especially in diverse places like the Bronx.’ – Jose Serrano

‘This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.’ – Lawrence Lessig

‘If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they’re free for people to build upon as they see fit.’ – Lawrence Lessig

‘But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar’s trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.’ – Martin Feldstein

‘The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.’ – Martin Feldstein

‘Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.’ – Christian Lous Lange

‘The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.’ – Janis Karpinski

‘I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don’t have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.’ – Shelby Foote

‘I don’t feel I’m even worthy of a normal amount of value.’ – Todd Barry

‘If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.’ – John Linder

‘It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.’ – Jim Costa

‘Conservation is an American value, and it is lacking from this bill.’ – Jim Costa

‘Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.’ – Anita Roddick

‘Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.’ – Stephen Cambone

‘What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.’ – Millicent Fawcett

‘English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.’ – Lytton Strachey

‘I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia – of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.’ – Catherine Helen Spence

‘This nation’s 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.’ – Solomon Ortiz

‘It was truly a lesson in don’t take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it’s because of how somebody looks or because of what they’re wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.’ – Shemar Moore

‘In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.’ – Bianca Jagger

‘For this reason, it is essential that our Nation’s rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.’ – Kit Bond

‘All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.’ – Jacques Ellul

‘Value will always be on top of everyone’s lists now, right along with safety.’ – David Neeleman

‘The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don’t make as much money as during their active careers.’ – Dick Butkus

‘Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.’ – Malcolm Wallop

‘All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.’ – Steven Hatfill

‘We learned the value of research in World War II.’ – Amar Bose

‘I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.’ – Armistead Maupin

‘I think there’s an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.’ – Godfrey Reggio

‘But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I’m trying to get to is the positive value of negation.’ – Godfrey Reggio

‘A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.’ – Roy H. Williams

‘The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.’ – Roy H. Williams

‘The value of an item – in the mind of a consumer – is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.’ – Roy H. Williams

‘Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that viewed in a social way, from the point of social considerations and economics, it will tell you that this thing will stay around.’ – Martin Fleischmann

‘Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.’ – Michael Servetus

‘Even though there’s an entertainment value to the film, I think it’s very important because you can’t really separate the impact of that political message from it. It’s rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.’ – Woody Harrelson

‘I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don’t put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people’s lives because I’m a journalist.’ – Peter Jennings

‘Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.’ – Raymond Queneau

‘If the work is going well and it’s something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.’ – Richard Gere

‘So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.’ – Jim Hightower

‘Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.’ – Al Franken