Quotes About Value

It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.

Clausewitz summarises both the value and limits of theory: '[Theory] is meant to educate the mind of the future commander, or, more accurately, to guide him in his self-education, not to accompany him to the battlefield.

Inward holiness will produce outward holiness, but the outward appearance of holiness is worthless without inward holiness. For example, a modest spirit will produce modest dress, but modest dress is of little value if it conceals a lustful heart.

Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

more money doesn't mean more better. It just means more.

Money talks, bullshit walks. First and foremost the magazine had to pay its way.

You either have a useful contribution to make or you don't, regardless of whether you're head of the office or the emperor of China.

was unworthy, almost dishonest, to put a number on somebody's capacities.

When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.

Can the memory of love be worth more than its presence and reality?

The harm is in whom this system makes powerful. If value is no longer vested in gold, but in the promise of gold, then the men who make the promises hold ultimate power. If money and gold are one and the same, then gold defines value, but if money and paper are the same, then value is based upon nothing at all.

What are we playing for? This needs to be worth my while." "Honour?" Steve suggested. "Let me know if your universal translator got that one. I know it may be a tough concept for your species.

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

I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity.

If people with good reputations are a resource for whom others compete, this leads to all the dirty tricks that people use against one another when they are competing for something of value. One such move is to "poison the well," to destroy the perceived value of the resource. When the resource is a person's reputation, some individuals will spread malicious gossip to destroy or damage it (Roland Barthes described this as "murder by language").

Why is the integrity of the literary canon everywhere articulated in terms of its imagined integration to a nation-state as well as a racialized civilization? What would it mean to seek justification for literary studies on the basis of aesthetic value rather than the contestable presumption that literary canons function as the preeminent repositories of national cultures and/or racialized civilizations?

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

Everything I ever valued before this was valued only because it was useless, because time spent upon it was not demanded but freely given, because to play is to be free. Free is not a word that exists here, I think, in their language. Nothing here is free of its own nature, its own law.

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

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

Don't ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.

God grant that I may never live to be useless!

Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes.