Value Quotes

• Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Life
  • God
  • Christian

• The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.

  

  Jorja Smith
  • People
  • Money
  • Value

• Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • True
  • Question
  • Winning

• Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

  

  Plato
  • Money
  • Value
  • Company

• I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in order to do nothing in its last third of life. In a utopian presentist society, instead of working extra hard to put money in the bank, you'd be working to provide value for the people around you.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Freedom
  • Value

• The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

  

  Benedetto Croce
  • Value
  • Translation
  • Work Of Art

• I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • Life
  • World
  • Book

• I suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Time
  • Different
  • Health

• I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.

  

  James Gleick
  • Time
  • Value

• The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Question
  • Value
  • Fault

• Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • History
  • Society
  • Reality

• Those who value a strong safety net for our neediest citizens see that every extra dollar spent on these unions is a dollar that cannot go to help the sick, the elderly, and the vulnerable.

  

  Bruce Rauner
  • Help
  • Strong
  • Sick

• 'Value added' is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Life
  • Business
  • Insurance

• There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.

  

  Arthur Ashin
  • Music
  • Value
  • Listening

• All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • True
  • Future
  • Value

• I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Pity

• It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

  

  Jacque Fresco
  • World
  • Different
  • Wish

• I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.

  

  Jonathan Coe
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Time
  • Lines
  • Waste

• Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement.

  

  John Mackey
  • True
  • Humanity
  • Model

• My first job at General Motors was as a quality inspector on the assembly line. I was checking fits between hoods and fenders. I had a little scale and clipboard. At one point, I was probably examining 60 jobs an hour during an eight-hour shift. A job like that teaches you to value all the people who do a job like that.

  

  Mary Barra
  • People
  • Job
  • Quality

• Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

  

  James Truslow Adams
  • Age
  • Value
  • Discipline

• The value of a thought cannot be told.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Value
  • Told

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