Value
» “Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.”
– Arthur James Balfour
» ”Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
– Buddha
» ”Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
– Warren Buffett
» ”The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.”
– Samuel Butler
» ”That which costs little is less valued.”
– Miguel De Cervantes
» ”You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.”
– Marcus T. Cicero
» ”It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.”
– Roy Disney
» ”Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
» ”All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”
– Albert Einstein
» ”Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
» ”The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
» ”What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.”
– Edgar Z. Friedenberg
» ”The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.”
– William Hazlitt
» ”Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.”
– Hsi-Tang
» ”Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.”
– W. Stanley Jevons
» ”The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.”
– Samuel Johnson
» ”Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.”
– Samuel Johnson
» ”First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.”
– Ryszard Kapuscinski
» ”The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
– Ann Landers
» ”The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.”
– C. S. Lewis
» ”Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don’t believe in the good old words because we don’t believe in good old values anymore. And that’s why the world is sick.”
– Lin Y
