Quotes About Value

All labor has dignity.

no labor is really menial unless you're not getting adequate wages.

A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and dissolves the confidence born of a partial victory by which new efforts are powered.

Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!

A Brazilian, talking to one of the R.A.F. men, said that he could not understand two major nations fighting over the tiny Falklands; it was, said the Brazilian, 'like two bald men fighting over a comb'.

How easy it is to dismiss the outer packaging without an inkling that one is thereby missing the precious beauty within.

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan

Why say something, he asked her, if your words mean nothing?

But it is only people who have plenty of money who can despise it. To the rest of us it is important. It can at least put food in our stomachs clothes on our backs, and it can at least feed our dreams.

It is part of you, and you are a man worth knowing

El hombre no es nada, la obra lo es todo.

Surely the game is hardly worth the candle.

Some times you have to look hard at something to see its value

See the value of imagination. It is the one quality which Inspector Gregory lacks. We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, and find ourselves justified. Let us proceed.

Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?

The opinion of a clever man who has had no experience is really of less value than that of the man in the street who has actually been there.

To a great mind, nothing is little

Well, perhaps, after all, it is of some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien—l'oeuvre c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to Georges Sand.

Hay más en un cerebro que en su bolsillo»

Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

A woman living in a grand house may pride herself on all her lovely things; but the moment she hears the crackle of fire she decides very quickly which are the few she values the most.

A surgeon gets $500 for taking out a tumor. A pathologist gets five dollars for examining it, making a diagnosis, recommending further treatment, and predicting the patient's future.