Quotes About Value

God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.

Honestly, connecting once at the deepest level with someone, you know, once you've done that, even if your life goes to hell, man, it was really worth living.

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

You are free only when you care for nobody in the world. But if you stop caring, life isn't worth living.

Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

death was the price of life.

Unlike life, when books become meaningless, they are making a point.

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.

Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.

If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

Talent [by which I think she meant technique] without genius is not worth much; but genius without talent is worth nothing whatsoever.

What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul?

Y de qué le sirve a un hombre ganar el mundo entero si pierde su alma?

I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.

Modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

If you only value my advice when I agree with you, you don't value it at all.

And when there's no point to something, the best idea is not to do it.