Value quotes

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein
(also about
Success)

Value quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

Also about
Time, Money
You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well. Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.

Value quotes by Jim Rohn

Also about
Work, Aim
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
In times of war and not before,
God and the soldier we adore.
But in times of peace and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the soldier slighted. Rudyard Kipling
(also about
War, Army, God, Poems)
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson
(also about
Loss, Price)
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
(also about
Humanity)

Value quotes by Francois Voltaire

Also about
Sharing, Mutuality, Humour, Absurd, Importance
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. Pablo Picasso
(also about
Destruction, Consequences, Price)

Value quotes by Sigmund Freud

Also about
Love, Happiness, Illusion
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection. One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness - that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.
O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor. George Gordon Byron
(also about
Money)

Value quotes by Karl Marx

Also about
Money, Economics, Labor, Future
Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash. A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production. Machinery which is not used is not capital. The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world. Nobody — not even “a musician of the future” — can live upon future products.

Value quotes by Steve Jobs

Also about
Time, Money
My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. Martin Luther
(also about
Nature)
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. Niccolo Machiavelli
(also about
Property, Men)
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. Martin Luther King Jr
(also about
Morals, Reality)
Experience is the thing of supreme value. Henry Ford
(also about
Experience)

Value quotes by Benjamin Franklin

Also about
Time, Money, Time Management, Mankind, People, Misery, Debt
Time is money. I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Value quotes by Marilyn Manson

Also about
Love, People, Morality
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love? Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation.
Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do. Elvis Presley
(also about
Inspiration, Individuality)
People who no longer play, gradually lose the value of all things. Adriano Celentano
(also about
Life, Indifference, People, Interest)

Value quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

Also about
Friendship, Life, Compassion, Psychology, Pleasure, Feminism, Shopping
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. Buying is a profound pleasure...
She tastes a fleeting triumph when she empties the bag of provisions onto her table.
And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them. Michelle Obama
(also about
Principles)
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. Muhammad Ali
(also about
Inspiration, Reason)

Value quotes by Erich Maria Remarque

Also about
Friendship, Memory, Life, Risk, War, Kiss, Romance, Mankind, Posession, Love
They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades. Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it. Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little. ... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess. A woman who is desired by someone else, even a love-starved coffinmaker, immediately becomes more precious than before. Man, as it happens, lives by relative rather than absolute values.
"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart". Alan Milne
(also about
Heart, Importance)
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. Francis Bacon
(also about
Appearance, Importance)
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. Virginia Woolf
(also about
Life, Death, Sacrifice)
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are. Oprah Winfrey
(also about
Work, Integrity, Vocation, Individuality)

Value quotes by Thomas Paine

Also about
Price
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie. Alvar Aalto
(also about
Humanity, Architecture, Culture)
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. Charles Lindbergh
(also about
Life, Personality, God, Self-determination, Simplicity)

Value quotes by Joanne Rowling

Also about
Humanity, Life, Justice, Equality, Time, Harry Potter
We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving. Time is Galleons, little brother.
A person's first duty, a young person's at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value. G. H. Hardy
(also about
Inspiration, Achievements, Ambition)
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. Joseph Schumpeter
(also about
Profit, Economics, Contribution)
The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless. Thomas More
(also about
Wisdom, Nature)
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand. Leo Tolstoy
(also about
Love, Symbolism)
- I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
- Or brains even?
- Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it. Roald Dahl
(also about
Heart, Mind, Kindness, Importance, Brain)
Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet. Ian Fleming
(also about
Age, Women)
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. Walt Whitman
(also about
Art, Manners, Morals, Tastes)

Value quotes by Marcel Proust

Also about
Paradise, Desire, Love, Reality
The only paradise is paradise lost. Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley. Mark Zuckerberg
(also about
Business, Startup)
The beauty of things must be that they end. Jack Kerouac
(also about
Beauty)
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. Harper Lee
(also about
Reading, Analogies)

Value quotes by John Steinbeck

Also about
Money, Materialism, Virtue, Attention, Beauty, Importance, Wisdom, Life, Care
Anything that just costs money is cheap. 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 embezzler, the tramp, the cheat. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. William S. Burroughs
(also about
Education, Knowledge)
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. F. Scott Fitzgerald
(also about
Advertisement)
I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it. William Faulkner
(also about
Money)
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone. Herman Melville
(also about
Life)
I tell white kids that instead of talking about black men in a white world or black men in a white society, they should ask themselves how black they are, because black men have been influencing the values of the society and the art forms of the society... Ralph Ellison
(also about
Art, Culture, Racism, Society)
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. Gustave Flaubert
(also about
Achievements, Art, Work, Enemies, Criticism)