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Quotes About Value

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
~ Joan Didion
The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect.
~ Wayne Pacelle
One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.
~ Rudolf Rocker
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
Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.
~ Benjamin Carson
Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Take inventory of what you have to offer. Place a value on it. Respect it - because if you don't respect what you have to offer it's hard for other people to.
~ Nancy Pelosi
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
~ Gautama Buddha
He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.
~ Andrew Jackson Downing
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
~ Moliere
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
With all due respect, I have nothing to prove about my worth to anyone.
~ Robbie Keane
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
~ Joseph Joubert
You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care
~ William Shakespeare
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
~ Mencius
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
~ Samuel Johnson
Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.
~ Tony Abbott
I did it for the money. But its not worth much if you cant face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency.
~ Clive Owen
The more they pay you the more they will respect you and enjoy your show.
~ Thomas Nelson Downs
Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.
~ Nora Roberts, Montana Sky
The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.
~ Ed Asner
In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood
~ Shunryu Suzuki