Value Quotes

I think the first outfit that really kick-started my relationship with Chanel means a lot to me: it was a black, sort of Studio 54-inspired jumpsuit with gold stars all over it, and I wore that, and that's how my relationship with Chanel began, so, you know, it has sentimental value.

~ Poppy Delevingne

The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

~ Natalia Kills

Our interests lie in attracting added value and talent to France as a result of Brexit, but also in having a balanced relationship with Great Britain. We must not sacrifice the short term for our bilateral relationship.

~ Emmanuel Macron

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

~ William Scranton

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

~ Albert Einstein

If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives - and you always stay focused on that service - the financial success will follow.

~ Brendon Burchard

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

~ T. S. Eliot

Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.

~ Julian Baggini

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

~ Marcus Aurelius

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

~ Gregor Mendel

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

~ Tony Robbins

For an economic recovery program to be effective, it must not only create a short-term economic boost but also generate lasting value. Home Star would accomplish that by breaking down the key barrier between homeowners and money-saving retrofits: upfront costs.

~ Peter Welch

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

~ Leland Stanford

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

~ William Temple

Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.

~ Peter Senge

There's a value in used electronic equipment, and currently, there are small, domestic recyclers that process this equipment safely. But they have a hard time competing with facilities overseas that have few, if any, environmental and safety standards.

~ Gene Green

Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this dispute from the ivory tower into day-to-day decision-making. Is it right to write? The publishing industry is slowly beginning to commit to using sustainably harvested trees.

~ Tristram Stuart

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

~ Joni Eareckson Tada

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.

~ Lee Kuan Yew

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

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

~ Zygmunt Bauman

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

~ Daniel De Leon

In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there.'

~ Susan Cain

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

~ Arlen Specter

Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.

~ Michael Porter

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

~ Lawrence Lessig

State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.

~ Harvey Fierstein

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

~ Nina Bawden

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

~ Robert Byrd

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.

~ Tim Pawlenty

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

~ Narendra Modi

Freedom is a universal value.

~ Jan Peter Balkenende

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

~ Fiona Apple

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

~ Dian Fossey

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

~ Dian Fossey

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