Value Quotes

5129 Value quotes by 3003 unique authors

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
I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect. — Jacques Derrida
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
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
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
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
Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things! — Rick Warren
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
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
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
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and… — John Dewey
Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense… — Richard Wright
Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the… — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war. — Jeanette Winterson
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. — Stephen Covey
But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in… — Jeffrey Eugenides
If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out… — Alfred Bester
Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without. — Terry Goodkind
Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value. — Brent Weeks
Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after… — Brandon Sanderson
Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost… — Sam Harris
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual… — Alain de Botton
Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil. — Julius Lester
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is… — Joyce Carol Oates

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