Value Quotes

When one person comes into contact with another, it is not simply coming together of person rather it is the first and the most important phase of coming together of humanity whether it is you and me or you and us or we and you friends. Unless it is engulfed by love and humanity the two qualifies which everybody professes or the eternal qualities essential for creating heaven in this very earth, which however, seems to be the most lacking in the present day traumatic situation of unhappiness, sorrows, woeful conditions, jealousies, hasted, abhorrence and so on, it will be simply wastage of the precious humanity.

~ Nutan Bajracharya

What is a price? It is a proposed point of agreement between a buyer and seller. The proposal is the key. It is not a marching order. Past prices represent deals done in history. Current prices represent possible deals in the future. Prices embed vast information about perceived realities: resource availability, consumer demand, cultural biases and habits, speculations about the future. The price is also an amazing tool. It provides an objective basis for accounting and the assessment of profit and loss. Without prices, real prices rooted in real market experience, we’d been lost.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

The day you find out the purpose of your existence, is the day you get to know the value of your being.

~ Mehek Bassi

A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

~ Albert Einstein

The amount of gold someone has is never the issue, but rather the love of it and the want of more for personal gain that consumes the hearts of many good people.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Light or dark, happy or sad, black or white, right or wrong there are only two strong options, the opposites and others are weak.

~ Ben Bereng

Happiness has no book value, but life has no value if there is no happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us. Going to school, reading and doing our homework wasn't just a way of passing time, it was our future.

~ Malala Yousafzai

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.

~ Clay Shirky

One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.

~ C.s. Lewis

How we treat one another matters, and not just in a it's nice to be nice kind of way: our behavior contributes to an environment that encourages some opportunities and hinders others.

~ Clay Shirky

Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead of some sophisticated task.

~ Clay Shirky

facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been.

~ Leslie Jamison

This work is not easy, and it never goes smoothly. Because we are hopelessly committed to both individual and group effectiveness, groups committed to public or civic value are rarely permanent. Instead, groups need to acquire a culture that rewards their members for doing that hard work. It takes this kind of group effort to get what we need, not just what we want; understanding how to create and maintain is one of the great challenges of our era.

~ Clay Shirky

As the several items can be exchanged, they must be equal; but in what terms? Not in pounds, yards, or hours; they are equal in value. Then what is wanted is a unit of value to reckon by.

~ Isabel Paterson

So I asked Dr Ceric if he thought there was a conflict between European values and Islam. ‘Not at all,’ he said. ‘Respect for other religions lies at the heart of Islam. And the principle of democracy is even anchored in Islam.’ When I looked surprised he explained: ‘Go right back to the origins of Islam.After Muhammad died, how did his followers seek his successor? They consulted with each other and chose his closest friend Abu Bakr in a democratic vote. Democracy is absolutely Islamic.

~ Kristiane Backer

People want to do something to make the world a better place. They will help when they are invited to.

~ Clay Shirky

Death shows no favor. He is very fair: exacting the same advantages to all. Age, race, gender, or economic status does not cause discrimination within the company of Death. Of all marketing companies on the Earth, Death has surpassed them all: ensuring to meet nearly 100% of its inhabitants. The only one powerful enough to release the clinch that Death holds is the Father who disseminates power to whom He sees fit.

~ Stephen And Tiffany Domena

The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without the imperatives of biology or the agenda of desire. Officially, you owe each other nothing.

~ Tim Kreider

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

~ Alain De Botton

The only thing of value on this earth is that each of us is an individual and not a cog in a machine. No man is better than another because of circumstance or fortune, but each important to his own.

~ Harold Robbins

Listen, everyone, you all have your own circumstances. Some of you come from rich families,and some poor. But your value isn't determined by such things--by things beyond your control. Each one of you must discover your own worth through your own efforts. So... don't make the mistake of thinking you alone are special.

~ Koushun Takami

Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.

~ Saul Bellow

Communication without a specific focus is just noise. It achieves little beyond taking time and energy.

~ David Amerland

Under the blanket the outline of her body was slender and displayed a certain innocence, a precious quality far more significant than the elegance of her form. She seemed to radiate kindness and essential goodness, and Darby, trying to measure the value of her, told himself it was immeasurable.

~ David Goodis

Want is an empty void — your real value is full and abundant.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Accepting our pain is a way to say we treasure the sacred gift of life — run to your pain.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When you accept your value and have gratitude you are declaring your worthiness of further receivership.

~ Bryant Mcgill

So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.

~ George R.r. Martin

True Success adds value to others

~ Todd Stocker

Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.

~ Ryan Lilly

The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

~ Karl Marx

A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.

~ John D. Macdonald

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

~ Joseph Addison

Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.

~ Kathy Acker

When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

What is it about your race that none of you can seem to properly weigh your own value? Every human seems to think more of herself than she should, or less of herself than is sensible!

~ R.a. Salvatore

Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

~ Albert Einstein

People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace and beauty; but have overlooked my work to substitute a vaster beauty, touching all objects and beings, not excluding the most despised - and because of that, all the more exhilarating.... I would like people to look at my work as an enterprise for the rehabilitation of scorned values, and, in any case, make no mistake, a work of ardent celebration.... I am convinced that any table can be for each of us a landscape as inexhaustible as the whole Andes range... I am struck by the high value, for a man, of a simple permanent fact, like the miserable vista on which the window of his room opens daily, that comes, with the passing of time, to have an important role in his life. I often think that the highest destination at which a work of art can aim is to take on that function in someone's life.

~ Jean Dubuffet

I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate.

~ Sara Sheridan