Quotes About Value

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

I'd Rather Be an Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool).

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.

For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.