Value Quotes

• The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Silence
  • Wealth
  • Credit

• Pathos, piety, courage, - they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Value
  • Courage

• I really value what Closed Sessions is doing to build the Chicago music scene and am excited to partner with them for my first solo project.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Music
  • Chicago
  • Partner

• If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Truth
  • Past
  • Artist

• I don't want features, I want value. I don't want benefits, I want value.

  

  Jeffrey Gitomer
  • Value

• Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Great
  • Money
  • Value

• The funny thing is more money doesn't necessarily get you what you think it's going to get you and the way where it does get you more value on screen.

  

  Alan Taylor
  • Money
  • Funny
  • Value

• After the 1929 crash, the Federal Reserve mistakenly focused its policies on preserving the gold value of the dollar rather than on stabilizing the domestic economy.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Gold
  • Economy
  • Federal Reserve

• It is a shortsighted priesthood leader who doesn't see the value in calling upon the sisters to share the understanding and inspiration they possess.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Understanding
  • Inspiration
  • Priesthood

• Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Friend
  • Understanding
  • Opinion

• The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Art
  • Power
  • Moral

• The rush to California, for instance, and the attitude, not merely of merchants, but of philosophers and prophets, so called, in relation to it, reflect the greatest disgrace on mankind. That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society!

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Live
  • Society
  • Attitude

• We want kids to value real food and understanding that it isn't just about feeding people but about nourishing the body, the community and the planet.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • People
  • Real
  • Kids

• Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

  

  Benjamin Jowett
  • Value

• America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • Believe
  • American
  • America

• Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.

  

  Arne Duncan
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

  

  Michael Lee-Chin
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Dividends

• We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Military
  • Heroes
  • Schwarzenegger

• Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

  

  Douglas Horton
  • Value
  • Sorry

• Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Great
  • Value

• Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Real
  • Freedom
  • Food

• Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

  

  Charles Vest
  • Value

• America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Trying
  • America

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