Quotes About Value

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.

Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.

Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

The right man won't care

A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.