Value Quotes

“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again. The bitterness we sold to the junk man - he got it all right, but we have it still. And when the owner men told us to go, that's us; and when the tractor hit the house, that's us until we're dead. To California or any place - every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. And some day - the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they'll all walk together, and there'll be a dead terror from it.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.”
― Ryan Lilly

“In seasons of hiddenness our sense of value is disrupted, stripped of what "others" affirmed us to be. In this season God intends to give us an unshakable identity in Him, that no amount of adoration nor rejection can alter.”
― Alicia Britt Chole, Anonymous: Jesus hidden years and yours

“The world is a busy place filled with many busy businesses, both the Godly and the ungodly. It means before you go on to accept any activity or event that comes into the world, you must weigh its Values, examine the Virtues, listen to Views and then you give your Verdict. Satan is not wise; he is just crafty!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“It is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion, that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.”
― George Washington, George Washington's Farewell Address

“The problem with gross domestic product is the gross bit. There are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if it were of positive value. Social harm is added to, not subtracted from, social good. A train crash which generates £1bn worth of track repairs, medical bills and funeral costs is deemed by this measure as beneficial as an uninterrupted service which generates £1bn in ticket sales.”
― George Monbiot

“The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Leap

“From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.”
― Robert Schumann

“friendship is not gold, but it's more value;
friendship is not diamond, but it's more glory;
friendship is not iron, but it's more strong”
― suresh kannan kottarathil sk

“If you don’t know what you value in life, then you won’t be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“How will people remember you when you are gone? And for how long until they forget? Were you selfish or selfless? A gossip or a patient listener? Did you add value to the world, or did you simply take from it? Did you add value to the lives of others, or did you take the value out of someone's life? Were you a plus or negative? Meaningful or meaningless? Do you live to take or live to give?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.”
― Leah Hager Cohen, Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things

“The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first beheld clearly by Socrates and re-affirmed by Kant as by no other philosopher. Science, concerned solely and exclusively with objective existents, cannot give answers to questions about meanings and values. Only ideas engendered by the mind and to be found nowhere but in the mind (Socrates), only the pure transcendental forms supplied by reason (Kant), can secure the ideals and values and put us in touch with the realities that constitute our moral and spiritual life. Twenty-four centuries after Socrates, two centuries after Kant, we badly need to re-learn the lesson.”
― D. R. Khashaba

“The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs.”
― Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City

“Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much dirt that it's a 24/7 exercise in archaeology.”
― Kelli Jae Baeli

“Seduced by the spectacular theoretical and practical successes of the objective sciences into thinking that the methods and criteria of those sciences were the only means to truth, philosophers sought to apply those same methods and criteria to questions relating to the meaning of life and the values that give meaning to life. Philosophy, especially the Analytical species prevalent in the English-speaking world, was broken up into specialized disciplines and fragmented into particular problems, all swayed and impregnated by scientism, reductionism, and relativism. All questions of meaning and value were consigned to the rubbish heap of 'metaphysical nonsense'.”
― D. R. Khashaba

“What you do with your time on a daily basis determines what values will be added to your life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Measure your life by the product and value you produce daily”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Always spend your time adding value to your life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Create/add value to your life on a daily basis”
― Sunday Adelaja

“To build yourself is to add value to your life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“WE DON’T KEEP THINGS BECAUSE THEY ARE PERFECT.
WE KEEP THEM BECAUSE THEY HOLD VALUE.

— Thanzil Salam”
― Thanzil Salam

“We have to earn our bread for the day.”
― uncredited

“Leaders, by nature, oversee end-to-end transformation—turning raw thought and raw material into rare outcomes.”
― RICHIE NORTON

“Anything worth having will be difficult to obtain.”
― Stax Baxter

“Interviewing T.S. Eliot, I saved my cheekiest question for last. “Do you know you’re any good?” His revised and printed response was formal, but in person he was abrupt: “Heavens no! Do you? Nobody intelligent knows if he’s any good.”
― Donald Hall, Essays After Eighty

“Know this: When someone talks over you, or interrupts you to say anything- they are not listening, not interested in listening , not interested in what you are saying and do not value what you are saying. Stop talking.”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny, The Affidavit of Niedria Dionne Kenny

“Problems are the root of all Value.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field