Value Quotes - page 4

The More we value things, the less we value ourselves. (Bruce Lee)
To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
We should seek the greatest value of our action. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Let us honour if we can; The vertical man; Though we value none; But the horizontal one. View quote
W. H. Auden
I learned the value of hard work by working hard. View quote
Margaret Mead
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help. View quote
Margaret Mead
I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value. View quote
Steve Ballmer
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. View quote
Samuel Johnson
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women. (Susan B. Anthony)
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school. View quote
George Mikes
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering. View quote
A. A. Milne
I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways. View quote
Lucille Ball
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. View quote
William Temple
Work is valued by the social value of the worker. View quote
Gloria Steinem
A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. View quote
Robert Browning
No safety without risk, and what you risk reveals what you value. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Only the ideas that we really live have any value. View quote
Hermann Hesse
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find. (Hermann Hesse)
If somebody prefers an income distribution more favorable to the poor for the sole reason that he is poor himself, this can hardly be considered as a genuine value judgment on social welfare. View quote
John Harsanyi
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't ever see them fading. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about. View quote
Joseph Campbell
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. View quote
Oscar Wilde