Quotes About Value

The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath human dignity, particularly any form of hand work. We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from.

He had nothing he could do with is life's work now except leave it to a man who thought nothing of it.

A Bible falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't.

A popular management term used to describe efficiency is called "working smart." We are told that if we work smart instead of hard, we will be more productive. But if we do work "smart" then we are likely to have idle time, and if we are idle we will likely be thought of as being lazy or worthless.

We've lost our ability to see anything sacred or unique in what it means to be human. And we've lost our capacity to believe in anything that we can't measure with our tools. As

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Years are like candy bars... We're paying more, but they're getting shorter.

It's amazing what we value when we're at our lowest.

Child, you listen to me, and you look me straight in the eyes when I'm talking to you. I may be just old hired help, and a country woman to boot, but I'm a human. And you know what? God thought of me. He actually took the time to dream me up. I may not be much to look at, but what you see first started in the mind of God, so don't stand there and ignore me like I don't exist. You remember that." Miss

But if you start making money at the expense of why you do what you do, or why you were given this gift in the first place, then you need to ask yourself how badly you want that money. In the end, the cost might be more than you can pay.

He tapped me gently in the chest. "And neither are you. So, if your mind is telling you that God slipped up and might have made one giant mistake when it comes to you, you remember the firefly's butt.

He said he gave up what he couldn't keep to gain what he couldn't lose.

And neither are you. So, if your mind is telling you that God slipped up and might have made one giant mistake when it comes to you, you remember the firefly's butt." The

It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is.

Whose you are matters more to the soul than who you are or what you are.

You are important—not because you're rich, but because you are human.

Corruption in the political process varies directly with the number and value of things that politicians have to sell. This

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

When you love, you entrust to that person your sense of your own worth, and if that person throws you aside, you believe profoundly and utterly that it is because you are worthless. That is a kind of death.

We only value ourselves as others value us, for it might be said that we hold ourselves in trust for others.

En la mujer rico tesoro es la belleza, el placer de admirarla no se acaba jamás; pero la bondad, la gentileza la superan y valen mucho más.

I ordered a glass of beer and arranged my coins before me on the bar in columns according to value. When the beer came, I dipped a finger in it and wet down each corner of the paper napkin to anchor it, so it would not come up with the mug each time and make me appear ridiculous. I drank from the side of the mug that a left-handed person would use, in the belief that fewer mouths had been on that side.