Value Quotes

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Ovid

Integrity, Keep, Worth

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
Denis Waitley

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Knowledge, Yourself, May

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Yourself, Others

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Reinhold Niebuhr

God, Religious, Ends

You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.
Jeff Foxworthy

Book, Down, Might

To add value to others, one must first value others.
John C. Maxwell

We should seek the greatest value of our action.
Stephen Hawking

Greatest, Action, Seek

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov

Great, May, Give

When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
Edwin Booth

Love, Good, Heart

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo

Best, Self, Become

We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow

May, Search, Therapy

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson

Praise, Gold, Diamonds

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
Charlotte Bronte

Nothing, Full, Sisters

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
Morrie Schwartz

Society, Yourself, Big

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
George Jean Nathan

Art, Others, Criticism

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Greater, Gold, Search

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Work, Art, True

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
Richard Dawkins

God, Power, Human

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Humor, Person, Attention

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
Samuel Johnson

Manner, Bestowed, Bounty

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
Vash Young

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Charles Lindbergh

Love, Person, Individual

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Boris Pasternak

Life, Beauty, Virtue

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone Weil

Beauty, Truth, Equality

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
Gamaliel Bailey

Men, Respect, Sun

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Desmond Tutu

Life, Love, Hope

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.
Keith O'Brien

Life, Work, History

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison

Give, Full, Songs

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
Louis L'Amour

Money, Knowledge, Increase

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