Quotes About Value

The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate, God-given abilities.

The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

There are those who have discovered that fear is death in life, and have willingly risked physical death and loss of all that is considered valuable in order to live in freedom.

To make the choice for independent survival, the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?

Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way, but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

It is what you are inside that matters. You, yourself, are your only real capital.

He profits most who serves best.

Speech is silver; silence is golden.

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.