John Ruskin Quotes
Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.
John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.
Patrick Lencioni
Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
Pat Brown
God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.
Victoria Osteen
There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.
Zebulon Pike
I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
Eddie Izzard
I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for themselves whether they want to be part of China or not. But this view isn't shared by most Chinese, or even the leaders of most Western democracies. As long as the Communist Party is in power, there is little hope for Tibet.
Ma Jian
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Eckhart Tolle
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
Cal Thomas
Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.
Warren Buffett
Empirical laws ... have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.
Vilfredo Pareto
'Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.'
Ralph Ellison
Life-flow of my natal hour, I will not weary of thy power, Till in the changes of thy sound A chord's three parts distinct are found. I will faithful move with thee, God-ordered, self-fed energy, Nature in eternity.
Margaret Fuller
'I wish I had been born a bird instead,' he said.'I wish we had all been born birds instead.'
Kurt Vonnegut
The most important, the most fundamental and the deepest investigations are those that affect human life and activities most profoundly. Only those scientists who have laboured, not with the aim of producing this or that, but with the sole desire to advance knowledge ultimately prove to be the greatest benefactors of humanity.
C. V. Raman
Nicht jene, die streiten, sind zu fürchten, sondern jene, die ausweichen.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.
John Ruskin
