Quotes About Value

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

The value of a man resides in what he gives

Little things are great to little men.

If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.

Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy.

I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.

A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

A man may have the best of wealth, cars and fame. But there is nothing more precious in life that he will get than a woman's heart.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.

There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.