Value Quotes
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A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.
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What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
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They took people at face value. If you did your job or held up your end, and treated them with the passing respect they accorded you, you were all right.
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Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.
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Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.
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If only we could see the value of one soul like God does.
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The kind of picture that has a big value are of celebrities getting married. We don't knowingly purchase any photographs taken while endangering the safety of any individual.
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I really had to develop a core. I had to figure out, at my core as a writer, what did I value? What was I about? And I had to love it and take pleasure in it.
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Being in Motley Crue really made me value friends and family.
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It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
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Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing of value they have to bequeath except their love and their faith.
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We put a gender lens on our whole value chain.
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Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress.
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This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
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Know what you value, be willing to take a risk, and lead from the heart - lead from what you believe in.
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I take it to heart that, for example, there aren't enough funds for AIDS research, but people pay 20 times the value of an item of clothing.
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Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way.
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I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.
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I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value.
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A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter — that is to say, what he has thought about it.
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In order to significantly increase sales we have to increase the perception of value of the market for our products.
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We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than adolescents.
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Sometimes listening is of greater value than speaking.
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Inevitably, most readers come to John Cheever's 'Journals' via his fiction. Whatever value they might have in their own right, their viability as a publishing proposition was conditional on the interest of the large readership of his novels and stories.
