Quotes About Value

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.

And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.

Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

I do believe in the value of ideas—and that eventually they get a man somewhere.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.