Quotes About Value

The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing.

There's nothing of any importance in life--except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value. All the codes of ethics they'll try to ram down your throat are just so much paper money put out by swindlers to fleece people of their virtues. The code of competence is the only system of morality that is on the gold standard.

Enquanto pessoas como o senhor não descobrirem que o dinheiro é a origem de todo o bem, estarão caminhando para sua própria destruição.

If you write a whole line of zeros,it's still nothing, (Kira Alexandrovna)

Las personas son importantes sólo en relación a los demás, en la medida de su utilidad, en el servicio que brindan. A menos que entiendas esto no puedes esperar nada, sino una u otra forma de sufrimiento.

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you – except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.

A sacrifice, it is necessary to remember, means the surrender of a higher value in favor of a lower value or of a nonvalue. If one gives up that which one does not value in order to obtain that which one does value—or if one gives up a lesser value in order to obtain a greater one—this is not a sacrifice, but a gain.

there's nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value. All the codes of ethics they'll try to ram down your throat are just so much paper money put out by swindlers to fleece people of their virtues. The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

Ellsworth was fifteen, when he astonished the Bible-class teacher by an odd question. The teacher had been elaborating upon the text: "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Ellsworth asked: "Then, in order to be truly wealthy, a man should collect souls?

no hay nada importante en la vida... excepto el modo en que se cumple la propia tarea. Nada. Tan solo eso. Todo cuanto seas procede de ahí. Es la vieja medida del valor humano. Todos los códigos de la ética que intentan hacerte tragar, son sólo papel moneda puesto en circulación por timadores para despojar de sus virtudes a la gente.

But if my love of truth is left as my only possession, then the greater the loss behind me, the greater the pride I may take in the price I have paid for that love.

Todo organismo viviente se enfrenta a una alternativa constante: la de la vida o la muerte. La vida es un proceso de acción, autosustentadora y autogenerada. Si un organismo falla en la misma, muere; sus elementos químicos perduran, pero su vida termina. Es sólo el concepto de vida el que hace posible el concepto de valor. Sólo para un ser viviente las cosas pueden resultar buenas o malas.

La suspención de una amenaza no constituye pago; la negación de un elemento negativo no es recompensa; la retirada de sus rufianes armados no constituye incentivo; la oferta de no asesinarme, no representa ningún valor.

Por su parte, él descubrió aquella noche que su reconquistado amor a la existencia no le era otorgado por haber sentido otra vez deseo de ella, sino que el deseo se suscitó luego de haber recuperado su mundo; el apego al valor y al sentido del mismo.

That doesn't matter. Not even that they'll destroy it. Only that it had existed." She

Los que usted compra, no valen un comino, porque siempre habrá alguien capaz de ofrecerle más.

the proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul's shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal, against the vile impertinence of any creed that proposes to immolate the irreplaceable value which is your consciousness and the incomparable glory which is your existence

V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.

didn't value books ("the problem with you and your family is that you live more in books than in reality")

The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

No one is pro-abortion.

I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington . . . I'm asking you to believe in yours. Keeping faith with those who serve must always be a core American value and a cornerstone of American patriotism. Because America's commitment to its servicemen and women begins at enlistment, and it must never end.

We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge.