Quotes About Value

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

Se riesci a contare i soldi, vuol dire che non hai un miliardo di dollari.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of of others.

You have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

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.

The name Soka Gakkai (literally "Value Creation Society") means an organization whose members are committed to creating supreme value and attaining the greatest happiness.

1. Become people who seek the truth, create value and possess wisdom and enthusiasm. 2. Do not cause trouble to others, and always take responsibility for your own actions. 3. Be considerate and polite, reject violence and value trustworthiness and cooperation. 4. Boldly speak out for your beliefs and act courageously for the sake of truth and justice. 5. Cultivate an enterprising spirit and become respectable leaders of Japan and the world.

From ancient times, those systems of thought that merit the name 'philosophy' or 'religion' have developed an all-embracing worldview with at least two dimensions. The first is a theory of value, or ethics, that relates to how human life should be lived. The second is a theory of being, or ontology, which posits the structure of existence, or of the world.

His spirit was never to waste a single moment, for once it was gone, it was gone forever.

Wage slavery is still slavery. It may provide a few creature comforts, but a wage slave is even more disposable than a slave. Wage

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.

Consider how we use our time. Not everything is worth the portion of our life we give to obtain it. SOme things are better, and others are best.

We should be careful not to exhaust our available time on things that are merely good and leave time for that which is better or best.

There's nothing noble about dying. Not even if you die for honor. Not even if you die the greatest hero the world ever saw. Not even if you're so great your name will never be forgotten and who's that great? The most important thing is your life little guys. You're worth nothing dead except for speeches.

Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a bill of sale on this freedom before we go out and get killed. Give us a bill of sale drawn up plainly in advance what we're getting killed for... so we can be sure after we've won your war that we've got the same kind of freedom we bargained for.

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

There's no word worth your life.

I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

Teachings not validated by personal experience are of little value.

Something in him has changed, he can't seem to connect properly with the world. He feels this not as a failure of the world but as a massive failing in himself, he would like to change it but doesn't know how. In his clearest moments he thinks that he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.