Value Quotes

I knew my value because the world seemed to be denying it, and that just made me want to prove it even more.

~ A.j. Mendez Brooks

The Black Woman is amazingly strong, truly powerful, deeply visionary, has incredible worth and much love and goodness within that she is willing to share. She is to be honoured, yet must begin first to see and honour all of this (and much more) within and about herself. Let us see this more in who we truly are and live, when we do, we will attract more of the greatness that we absolutely deserve.

~ Rebecca Gordon

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

~ P.d. James

Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat.

~ A.d. Posey

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!

~ Bill Watterson

Life is made of connections. Who knows why fate throws things in our direction, but one thing's for sure, new things are there to offer value to our lives and teach us something new about ourselves. It's what makes life exciting.

~ Serina Hartwell

Rincewind stared, and knew that there were far worse things than Evil. All the demons in Hell would torture your very soul, but that was precisely because they valued souls very highly; evil would always try to steal the universe, but at least it considered the universe worth stealing. But the gray world behind those empty eyes would trample and destroy without even according its victims the dignity of hatred. It wouldn't even notice them.

~ Terry Pratchett

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take the plunge all at once, a plunge that includes comprehension and especially incomprehension. And who am I to dare to think? What I have to do is surrender. How is it done? I know however that only by walking do you know how to walk and - miracle - find yourself walking.

~ Clarice Lispector

Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Acting on our interests refines our understanding of what we are good at and what we value. The experiences we have along the way sometimes introduce us to new values that enhance and enlarge our vision. The lessons we learn through habits of action test our understanding and teach us to identify what matters in our life.

~ Marian Deegan

People think monsters are born without origin. But it is the monsters that have the greatest stories to tell...

~ Charles Lee

The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror.

~ Ryan Lilly

A thought is of a much higher value than an action.

~ Harshit Walia

The size of action has no value but its aim.

~ Alireza Salehi Nejad

Any action is good action, do what you can from where you are and build off of that action each day.

~ Mike Basevic

One does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger.

~ Marie Brennan

What is lived is what is valued.

~ T.f. Hodge

Its always hard to find out that a person you once considered a great friend has completely turned their back on you. Life is full of surprises, some good and some bad. From my experience, bumping into bad ones never gets easier, but you learn to expect it, learn from it, and move on. Thats the only thing we can do... is move on.

~ Hilda Yacoubian

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

~ Oscar Wilde

We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you've gained.

~ A.j. Darkholme

On a group of theories one can found a school, but on a group of values one can found a culture.

~ Ignazio Silone

For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

~ Sara Sheridan

When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be a cheapening of our lives. And we can set a watch over our affections and our constancy as we can over other treasures.

~ George Eliot

Although mankind is made from mere dust of the ground, we are made in the image of God. As we emulate His image, we have value and purpose.

~ Todd Coburn

The Beaver is an amphibious creature: by day it lives hidden in rivers, but at night it roams the land, feeding itself with anything that it can find. Now it understands the reason why hunters come after it with such eagerness and impetuosity, and it puts down its head and with its teeth cuts off its testicles and throws them in their path, as a prudent man who, falling into the hands of robbers, sacrifices all that he is carrying, to save his life, and forfeits his possessions by way of ransom. If however it has already saved its life by self-castration and is again pursued, then it stands up and reveals that it offers no ground for their eager pursuit, and releases the hunters from all further exertions, for they esteem its flesh less. Often however Beavers with testicles intact, after escaping as far away as possible, have drawn in the coveted part, and with great skill and ingenuity tricked their pursuers, pretending that they no longer possessed what they were keeping in concealment.

~ Aelian

Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which, glimpsed only a little after my twentieth year, made write in those days that what is most valuable in man is his eternal and almost divine discontent, a discontent which is a kind of love without a beloved, and like an ache which we feel in members of our body that we do not have. Man is the only being that misses he has never had. And the whole of what we miss, without ever having had it, is never what we call happiness. From this one could start a meditation on happiness, an analysis of that strange condition which makes man the only being who is unhappy for the very reason that he needs to be happy. That is, because he needs to be what he is not.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

The measure of a man lies not in his lengthy accomplishments, but in his decisions when he is faced with the certain, indisputable knowledge that he is going to die.

~ Mitch Rowland

It is important how people take you.

~ Aporva Kala

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?

~ Jerry Spinelli

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

~ Jonathan Sacks

It's not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer's material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad's temporal popularity.

~ T.f. Hodge

Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.

~ Russell Brand

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad, it is the way they are used that determines their value.

~ David Sarnoff

How did you deal with it? How do you stop loving someone?”“The Creator didn’t make love conditional,” Jona said. “Love is what makes us human. What separates us from the corelings. There is value in it, even when it is not requited.

~ Peter V. Brett

In this world it is not possible that everyone will follow your steps. You can't change some one and some one will not change their lifestyle because of you.

~ Nutan Bajracharya

The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it.

~ Amit Kalantri