Value Quotes

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A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.… — Aesop
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim… — W. Somerset Maugham
Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool. — Miguel de Cervantes
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. — George Santayana
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. — William Hazlitt
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is… — Charles Caleb Colton
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away. — Joseph Wood Krutch
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? — David Sarnoff
To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds. — William Hazlitt
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for… — Ambrose Bierce
During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed… — Peter Drucker
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet. — Maurice Maeterlinck
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce. — Henry Ward Beecher
Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. The outcome of this debate is important-and so is the way we conduct it. The same moral… — George W. Bush
When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what… — Marilyn Manson
Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep… — Ayn Rand
When you are praising, when you are appreciating, when you are acknowledging value, when you are looking for positive aspects, when you are laughing, when… — Esther Hicks
I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm… — Bruce Willis
The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although… — Marshall B. Rosenberg

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