Quotes About Value

A live dog is better than a dead lion, but death is preferable to poverty.

Ne yapt???n? duymam bilmem sanma. Kalbini ver yoksa keser al?r?m. AÅŸk bütün dünya ve yukar?daki gökyüzü deÄŸilse hiçbir ÅŸeydir, tozdan k?ymetsizdir.

You see, captain,  here is the truth of the business: some persons are better, others are less.  But it may be nice for you to think otherwise.

In the evenings they sat in pools of yellow light, books on their laps, lost in words. They looked like figures in a Rembrandt painting, Two Philosophers Deep in Meditation, and they were more valuable than any canvas; maybe members of the last generation of their kind, and we, we who are post-, who come after, will regret we did not learn more at their feet.

Every one of the world's great religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psychology to economics -- has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture. Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music.

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel love and avoid loneliness…. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. Every waking moment, and even in our dreams, we struggle to direct the flow of sensation, emotion, and cognition towards states of consciousness that we value.

In a world of true abundance you shouldn't have to work to justify your life.

Ethical transgressions are generally divided into two categories: the bad things we do (acts of commission) and the good things we fail to do (acts of omission). We tend to judge the former far more harshly. The origin of this imbalance remains a mystery, but it surely relates to the value we place on a person's energy and intent.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

The long-term value of amplifying the intelligence of people is a lot more important than betting on sports.

Real value isn't in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.

It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

He can't value you more than you value yourself.

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.