Quotes About Value

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

My mate asked me "What do you think of voluntary work?" I said "I wouldn't do it if you paid me."

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it.

I always bring cash for tips, and I never give less than $20. I used to work in a smoothie shop, so I know the value of a tip.

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Labor is the true standard of value.

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

Unpaid work never commands respect.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

If food were free, why work?

People are willing to work free, and they are willing to work for a reasonable wage; but offer them just a small payment and they will walk away.

In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.

The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.