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Quotes About Value

Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?
~ Confucius
When it comes to getting dressed, men are a little bit more important than handbags but less important than shoes.
~ Ashton Kutcher
Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
~ Laurence J. Peter
I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.
~ Davy Jones
Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.
~ Erich Fromm
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .
~ Maxim Gorky
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
~ Samuel
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.
~ Gracie Allen
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
~ Albert Schweitzer
I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.
~ Berthe Morisot
When a man offers you his soul, do you give him change?
~ Luis Munoz Marin
Each man in his way is a treasure.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
~ Honore de Balzac
Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.
~ D. H. Lawrence
When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.
~ Eric Cantona
A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.
~ Gautama Buddha
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.
~ H. L. Mencken
For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
~ Ana Castillo
One good man, one good man, it ain't much - it's only everything.
~ Deborah Kerr
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
~ Frederick Douglass