Quotes About Value

The proper respect to be shown to scholars is described by Alî in detail. He is credited with the constantly repeated statement that "Knowledge is better than property. For knowledge protects you, while you must protect property. Property is diminished by spending, while knowledge thrives on spending." Alî's celebrated remark: "A man's value consists in what he knows or does well.

Más vale ser un animal de un compañia que un animal para carne.

Do we really deserve top billing?

I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

An actor, to spend his entire life as an actor, has to have the mind of a child. A writer at sixty can be a Steinbeck, a Faulkner, or a Hemingway. An actor at sixty can make a funny face or do a creaky dance. The actor lives a reasonable-facsimile existence while cavorting in an unreal world. The value of an actor's services are determined by the needs of another person.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away.

Calculating the value of a life in days and years is a fools arithmetic; the only true measure of our lives is how richly we spend our allotted time, and how much of ourselves we share along the way.

Bad profits are about extracting value from customers, not creating value.

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has- or ever will have- something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.

One of the universal fears of childhood is the fear of not having value in the eyes of the people whom we admire so much.

There's a part of all of us that longs to know that even what's weakest about us is still redeemable and can ultimately count for something good.

One of our chief jobs in life, it seems to me, is to realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is–that each of us has something which no one else has–or ever will have–something inside which is unique to all time.

Now the crucial question no longer seemed to be what life was, but what one was to do with this valueless, yet somehow uniquely valuable life?

Désormais, la question essentielle n'était plus de savoir ce qu'était la vie, mais de décider de ce qu'il fallait faire de cette vie sans valeur, et pourtant, en quelque sorte, d'un prix unique.

Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.

We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.

Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get.

When you feel that you are superior to someone else, you lack compassion. Compassion is a word Buddhists use to express the realization that even though we may differ greatly in evolution, appearance, talents, or intelligence from other beings in the universe, we are all equally valuable in the eyes of eternity. This is wisdom." - Surfing the Himalayas 202

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

It is not a cheap commodity, love. Some of us can have it and never face the bill, but only if someone else picks up the check.

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