Value Quotes

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

~ Sam Harris

I resent being lied to because a lie doesn't only undermine the value of the truth, but it further denies the liar a fair chance for honesty.

~ Gugu Mona

In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

At the very point that I’ve taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I’ve cultivated quite a cemetery.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

People strive hardest to save face, when the beauty they value is solely extrinsic.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Your children should not have to act appropriately so that you can feel like a valuable person. It is not their job to validate you or erase past relationship indictments against you with their performance. In a healthy Christian family children are not there for the adults, adults are there to be resources for their children.

~ Jeff Vanvonderen

The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.

~ C.s. Lewis

Silence and indifference would not take you anywhere at the end of the day. It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last. When we become quiet at the collapsed value system in our nation, iniquity and injustice would eventually overrun that nation if action is not taken promptly.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeless in your city. You can memorize the book of Leviticus. You can pray each morning for four hours like Martin Luther. But if what you do does not flow out of a heart of love - a heart that does those things because it genuinely desires to do them - it is ultimately worthless to God.

~ J.d. Greear

The long road to success isn't meant to discourage and stress you; rather, it's only for the purpose of adding value to the prize you seek.

~ Hafiz

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.

~ Alain De Botton

It's nice to be liked, but it's better to be respected.

~ Habeeb Akande

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

~ Marcus Aurelius

If you want to know if someone was meant to be in your future, then remove all the worldly things about them from your mind. Don’t think about their looks, the intimate moments or their personality. Now, think about how they made you feel, how they improved your life and what virtues they possess that push you to want to become better. Did they bring you closer to God? Did they bring you to your life mission? Did they ever lie to you, betray you or made it impossible for you to feel comfortable speaking your mind? When you remove all the shine from a diamond, it becomes a glass rock. What value is it then? See beneath the surface and you will know who your future is with.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

~ Confucius

For it falls outThat what we have we prize not to the worthWhiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,Why, then we rack the value, then we findThe virtue that possession would not show usWhile it was ours.

~ William Shakespeare

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

~ Aristotle

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

~ Graham Greene

Someone out there is looking for exactly what you've got…and will never try and undercut your value or question your worth. Some things in life just can’t be bartered over or placed on the sale rack – and your self-worth is at the top of the list.

~ Mandy Hale

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

~ Confucius

As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Value is more expensive than price.

~ Toba Beta

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?

~ Alice Steinbach

Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.

~ Joe Biden

But what's worth more than gold?Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?

~ Terry Pratchett

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

~ Jean Rhys

Never live your life on the edge when you have loved ones who love you and who are depending on you.

~ Paul Nat

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

~ John Piper

His attentive treatment of her had nothing to do with the presumption that she was weak, and everything to do with the conviction that she was valuable.

~ Angela N. Blount

Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white.

~ C. Joybell C.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

~ Larry Niven

Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

So much the better. The higher the price you have to pay, the more you will cherish it.

~ Lloyd C. Douglas

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

~ John Cage

friendship is not gold, but it's more value;friendship is not diamond, but it's more glory;friendship is not iron, but it's more strong

~ Suresh Kannan Kottarathil Sk