Quotes About Value

A single idea / the sudden flash of a thought / may be worth a million dollars.

Realists value order above freedom: for them the latter becomes important only after the former has been established.

the only effective charity is the kind that asks more from those being served, rather than less. Asking for more sends an affirming message to the recipient that he or she also has something of value to offer.

La juventud no es una etapa de la vida, sino un estado de ánimo [...] el predominio del valor sobre la timidez, del apetito por la aventura sobre el amor a la comodidad.

Šanca je jediná vec, ktorú si nekúpite. Musíte za ?u zaplati?, zaplati? životom, ?asom, úsilím. ?as nemí?ate, platíte ním.

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living. -Robert Downey Jr.

ane hunder pundis will do mair presently to the said work nor ane thousand pundis will do quhen it is fallin downe

My friends' thirty dollars wouldn't go far with gas at thirty-six cents a gallon.

Because William taught me that you can't expect to be treated as a man if you act like a child, and that every life is precious and can be lost in an instant of stupidity or bad luck. He taught me not to waste the opportunities I had, because so many young men never had a chance at them, never had the chance to grow old.

The more important value for Jewish success was a high regard for the cultivation of the intellect…

When you spend your day doing things you believe are important, your life has meaning. Conversely, when you spend your day doing things that make no sense to you, you feel empty, frustrated and angry.

Time is the only thing even money can't buy.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn't do without you. The rub is that you don't always know who.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.

Ben Graham gave us the same lesson: "In the short run the market is a voting machine but in the long run it is a weighing machine."51

As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

She couldn't understand a vocation. Some people can't; at best, work's about status and pay cheques for them, it hasn't got value in itself.

But as I'm not going around killing people I don't like, I don't think there's much wrong with admitting some people contribute more to the world than others.' 'So you don't subscribe to "any man's death diminishes me"?' said Robin. 'I wouldn't feel remotely diminished by the deaths of some of the bastards I've met.

Si te parabas a buscarla, podías encontrar belleza casi en cualquier parte; sin embargo, muchas veces, la batalla para llegar al final de cada jornada te hacía olvidar que existía ese lujo, y que era gratis

Time had eroded all shock value.

She couldn't understand a vocation. Some people can't; at best, work's about status and paychecks for them, it hasn't got value in itself.

He'd also learned the value of concealing personal information, and of editing the stories you told about yourself, to avoid becoming entangled in other people's notions of who you must be.

she was tired of being taken for granted in ways Strike didn't recognize.