Value Quotes

5129 Value quotes by 3003 unique authors

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. — Robert A. Heinlein
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away… — Milan Kundera
This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of… — Robert M. Pirsig
It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford — Douglas Adams
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the… — Albert Einstein
What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence. — Christopher Hitchens
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries… — Aldous Huxley
I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have… — Alice Munro
A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and… — Sigmund Freud
When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence. — Nicholas Sparks
Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you. — Sarah Dessen
So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start… — Kurt Vonnegut
What if he wakes up before you get home and steals you blind? (Wayne) Steals what? My clothes won’t fit him and I have nothing… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. — KatÃ³ Lomb
In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the… — David Foster Wallace
There’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use… — Swami Satchidananda
The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are. — Walt Whitman
I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives… — Oprah Winfrey
The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest… — David O. McKay
Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what… — Daniel Defoe
Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed… — Ann Aguirre
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is… — Isabelle Eberhardt
Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within… — Daniel Quinn
It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and… — Carolyn Parkhurst

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