Quotes About Value

Why did people understand how precious each day was only once the doors to the grave had opened and they had looked inside? What was the point of that?

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

No man is cheaper than he who accepted that he's cheap to continue his cheap action.

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, Hey man, I love you this many dollars-worth.

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.

Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads.

Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.