Value Quotes

• A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life
  • Value
  • Humanity

• We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Value
  • Services
  • Renders

• It helps enormously to have had a loving mother. Mothers can give their daughters permission to love their fathers. Mothers can help their daughters feel good about becoming mothers. Mothers can help daughters learn the value of openness and female friendship, especially when times are bad

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Help

• Personal religion has a supreme value for its own sake, not merely as a feeder of social morality, but as the highest unfolding of life itself, as the blossoming of our spiritual nature. Spiritual regeneration is the most important fact in any life history. A living experience of God is the crowning knowledge attainable to a human mind.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • God
  • Important

• Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

  

  Jim Rohn
  • Time
  • Money
  • Value

• It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

  

  Dawn French
  • Life
  • Father
  • Beautiful

• I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.

  

  Charlie Munger
  • Good
  • Money
  • Bad

• Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.

  

  Angela Lansbury
  • Value

• If we give something value, it becomes valuable.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Value

• Bitcoin's revolution: an impossible-to-counterfeit digital store of value that can be used as money, that has no sovereign, or central bank involved, that can be sent anywhere instantly at virtually no cost, is irresistible. Anyone who uses it is converted.

  

  Max Keiser
  • Money
  • Value
  • Revolution

• Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.

  

  George Packer
  • Long
  • Value

• There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is a personal defilement. There are others, and I think I am one of them, who are entirely indifferent to where they live.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.

  

  Jayson Blair
  • Society
  • Value
  • Blow

• For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.

  

  Kit Bond
  • Support
  • Value
  • Planning

• As we see thousands of public and private Christmas trees and nativity displays around the country, they remind us again of the powerful American value built into our Constitution: our freedom of religion.

  

  James Lankford
  • Country
  • American
  • Freedom

• The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Value

• I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you.

  

  Chen Guangcheng
  • People
  • Family
  • American

• If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

  

  John Linder
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Law

• Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Life
  • Up
  • Value

• Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we've been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on 'perfect' bodies.

  

  Jennifer Armintrout
  • People
  • Women
  • Perfect

• My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Religious
  • Commitment
  • Compassion

• Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Value

• First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Value

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