Quotes About Value

When people pay money to watch films, they also expect good movie in return.

Certainly it's much more important for me to go to a good movie and spend a nice night with my wife than it is to listen to a specific piece of music.

You've got to want to put out good music. You've got to give the people their money's worth.

I think Xbox has a really good story about value for gamers, around a lot of diversity of choice.

Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom.

To the extent that I can add value and make my country a better place, that's a good thing to do.

I guess it's a good thing to know that I am wanted.

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

The better you treat a slave, the more you destroy his value as a slave, and enhance the probability of his eluding the grasp of the slaveholder; the more kindly you treat him, the more wretched you make him, while you keep him in the condition of a slave.

Your faculties remained yours, and mine became useful to their rightful owner.

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere. It sees plainly the real worth of men and things, and is not easily imposed upon by the dressed up emptiness of human pride.

Maybe there is a sort of law of conservation of misery that insures an average quantum value of unhappiness for every human being, and all we can really do is spread it in one direction or another?

As boas maneiras são como o zero a aritmética: por si sós, elas pouco ou nada representam, mas são capazes de acrescentar muito ao valor das outras coisas.

You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. Good is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a common good! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.

With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious.

Todo el que disfruta cree que lo que importa del árbol es el fruto, cuando en realidad es la semilla. He aquí la diferencia entre los que creen y los que disfrutan.