Quotes About Value

Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures, let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.

Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.

Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.

I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

Measure thy life by loss instead of gain, Not by the wine drunk, but by the wine poured forth.

The principle was right there-you couldn't miss it. The more you did for your customers, the more they did for us.

Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Most people in action are not worth very much; and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

A man is a kind of inverted thermometer, the bulb uppermost, and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another, but what there is is very important.'

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!