Value Quotes
5129 quotes by 3003 authors
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Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of…
— Karl Marx
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You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that…
— Oscar Wilde
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There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
— Albert Einstein
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What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.
— Christopher Moore
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as…
— Oscar Wilde
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I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.
— Jacques Derrida
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The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow…
— Rolf Potts
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Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines…
— Ayn Rand
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Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who…
— Bette Greene
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Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!
— Rick Warren
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A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his…
— Ayn Rand
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We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the…
— John Steinbeck
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Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this…
— H. L. Mencken
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