Quotes About Value

Gandhi was a great man but he failed to understand two things: the value of the sword, and the danger from Islam.

As I indicated, I do not believe that any chair, however elegant, contributes significantly to life or solves problems that can be considered major by anyone who is not minor.

Teresa of Avila makes the point that it isn't whether the prayers are memorized or not or said out loud or not that determines their value, but whether we pay attention to what we're saying and to whom we're speaking.

One of the most amazing recent developments is that a number of aggressive atheists are beginning to see the horror of a totally de-Christianized culture and are starting to acknowledge, without themselves claiming to have become believers, that Christianity contributed some great value to our lives and many of the progressive ideals came to birth only as a result of Christianity.

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

Our distrust is very expensive.

One thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

....whether your jewel was got from the mine or from an auctioneer.

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

When an opposition member taunted Nehru with regard to his remark that Aksai Chin was barren land, with no grass growing on it, a Congress MP added this telling supplement: 'No hair grows on my head. Does it mean that the head has no value?' This was widely viewed as a dig at Nehru who, of course, was completely bald himself.59

Call it Irony or destiny of life, but the fact is I failed to make a living from what 'I loved doing the most' nor did I justify for what I was paid for!

Taking pride in your own worthiness makes you unworthy!

To receive the compliments of being a good writer really annoys me, as this has been my perception that a writer as such has no value, it is the readers who invest their thought process, give life to dead words, coupled with their own imagination, thus syncing the content to their tastes and sensibilities, that matter."

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

The collective value of a typical venture capital portfolio will go down before it goes up—the pattern is called the J curve—because the companies that are not going to survive die before the best performers begin to shine and pull the value of the portfolio up with them. That,