Value Quotes
5129 Value quotes by 3003 unique authors
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There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be…
— John C. Maxwell
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It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to…
— John Stuart Mill
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All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps…
— Thrity Umrigar
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To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift…
— Terry Goodkind
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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no…
— Graham Greene
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Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by…
— Milan Kundera
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Gold is the corpse of value...
— Neal Stephenson
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Something that is yours forever is never precious
— Chaim Potok
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Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by…
— Ayn Rand
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If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable…
— Pat Conroy
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If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that…
— Alfred de Musset
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You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.
— Richelle Mead
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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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