Quotes About Value

A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

My work is not worthy of respect. Why then do you join in it with me?

Lelaki tidak tahu nilai seorang perempuan. Perempuan itulah yang menentukan nilai dirinya. Semakin tinggi kau menaruh harga bagi dirimu semakin dia menyadari hargamu itu sebenarnya, dan dia akan bersiap untuk membayar dengan apa yang dimilikinya. Dan bila dia tidak memilikinya, dia akan mencuri dari orang lain untuk memberimu apa yang kau minta.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

Work is always a spiritual necessity even if, for some, work is not an economic necessity.

Humility is not the disavowal of our worth; rather, it is the sober realization of how much we are valued by God.

I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have.

When you have a chest of jewels, you don't walk around it. You plant yourself on the lid with a weapon in your hand.

Ser bendecido es recibir pan para el camino de la vida. Jesús se refería a la liberación de los espíritus malignos como pan de los hijos. A menudo no conocemos el valor de lo que hemos recibido hasta que lo regalamos, como el muchacho de Jn 6:9.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

The South's 1860 population of 3,953,742 enslaved people comprised or made viable an estimated four billion dollars' worth of private property... ...Four billion dollars was more than double the $1.92 billion value of farmland in the eleven states that seceded.* Without labor Southern land lost what value it had, but even with labor Southern land in 1860 still was worth much less than land in the free states

There's a myth that time is money. In fact, time is more precious than money. It's a nonrenewable resource. Once you've spent it, and if you've spent it badly, it's gone forever.

In extreme cases of perfectionism, there is no distinction between judgment of one's work and one's sense of value as a person.

How much would you pay to launch our economy? How much would you pay for the universe?

Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

Until, years from now, when it will be noticed that the massive collection and speed-of-light retrieval of data have been of great value to large-scale organizations but have solved very little of importance to most people and have created at least as many problems for them as they may have solved.

The television commercial has oriented business away from making products of value and toward making consumers feel valuable, which means that the business of business has now become pseudo-therapy. The consumer is a patient assured by psycho-dramas.

Of course, in television's presentation of the "news of the day," we may see the Now...this" mode of discourse in it's boldest and most embarrassing form. For there, we are presented not only with fragmented news but news without context, without consequences, without value, and therefore without essential seriousness; that is to say, news as pure entertainment.

It has been demonstrated many times that a culture can survive misinformation and false opinion. It has not yet been demonstrated whether a culture can survive if it takes the measure of the world in twenty-two minutes. Or if the value of its news is determined by the number of laughs it provides.

history can play no significant role in image politics. For history is of value only to someone who takes seriously the notion that there are patterns in the past which may provide the present with nourishing traditions.

It is naive to suppose that something that has been expressed in one form can be expressed in another without significantly changing its meaning, texture or value. Much prose translates fairly well from one language to another, but we know that poetry does not; we may get a rough idea of the sense of a translated poem but usually everything else is lost, especially that which makes it an object of beauty. The translation makes it into something it was not.