Quotes About Value

Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued.

I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

Life and existence have no value in themselves. We mean nothing; not even those who are needed mean anything. The only thing of real value is what we produce.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important.

All this has been very formative in both my research and my teaching, so I value it enormously in my life. It's why I'm a strong proponent of general education -- because I saw how it opened my eyes.

Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

When we have great treasures before us, we can never see them.

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.

The Warrior knows the value of persistence and of courage.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take years of my life than take away a moment.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

Clearly money has something to do with life.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.

Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.