Value Quotes

I think that in our earlier history--the Gettysburg Address or something--there was the conscious sense that democracy was an achievement. It was not simply the most efficient modern system or something. It was something that people collectively made and they understood that they held it together by valuing it.

~ Marilynne Robinson

People value you till they needs you.

~ Debolina Bhawal

Is it OK to say, these are the things that I value. This is what I'm going to pursue in life?

~ Larissa Macfarquhar

If you want to know the value of a month, ask a pregnant woman, if a month matters in her pregnancy.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The truth is not simply visible to the naked eyes, not any more. When people believe so much in media reports, history itself may conceal the truth only the chosen ones can see.

~ Aishah Madadiy

Journalism is not like fiction and will never be. In fiction, you can feed people with lies, yet at the end of the reading, people still live the same life - go to work, eat, come back home, and sleep - nothing really changes aside from, at the very least, their perception of the world. But, things are different in journalism. You tell people a barefaced life, they will believe it, and something is going to happen. People will promptly respond to what they believe is true because it relates to their life, and we take life seriously, don't we?

~ Aishah Madadiy

Visibility doesn't automatically translate into value, don't just be everywhere, be where you are most needed.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The value of time is only equal to the value of life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you want to know the value of a day, ask someone who could not find food to eat or water to drink for a whole day when he is hungry.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is only when the proper value system is well embraced by the populace that a country begins to produce God fearing leaders that are free from the mentality of eating from the national cake.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The religion or pulpit of a nation is the most powerful source of value formation in any country. Followed by the family, the educational system and the media.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The ambiance of every environment in a country is the value system of the given nation. It is that culture that influences how citizens of a nation react, respond and behave among themselves in regards to politics, commerce, family and social life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

From our primary schools to secondary schools, to tertiary institutions, there must be a mass campaign to educate our people in the value of labour.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, value is in the mind of the consumer.

~ Michele Jennae

A story has value whether it's true or not.

~ Marty Rubin

Recognition of the value of time, the change in our attitude to time, time management and time consciousness translate into economic growth or increase in GDP.

~ Sunday Adelaja

What a lot of humans fail to see is that they don't need to do anything to be valuable--they already are.

~ C.m. Rayne

When we possess something without knowing its value, we abuse it.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Everything of value doesn't come with a price tag.

~ Shefali Batra

We all have value; our unique gifts are needed in this time and place, and we should never forget this in times of struggle and hardship.

~ Russell Eric Dobda

Most people do not take care of their lives, because they don’t value life

~ Sunday Adelaja

People value people who value people.

~ Tony Curl

There is simply nothing of comparable value to life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When we don’t see the value of a thing, we don’t put the protective edge.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When we as human beings, are trusted with life, but lack the value thereof, we are only left with one thing – abuse!

~ Sunday Adelaja

Our people must be taught to desist from accepting bribes. The ability to say NO, must become a core value of our nation

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Most people do not take care of their lives, because they don’t value life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Most of the deaths before seventy years old in our world, could actually be prevented if the various individuals had only treated their lives with more caution and sense of value.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value.

~ Sunday Adelaja

That lack of value sense would deprive a person from a protective instinct.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Everything has a hidden secret meaning to be revealed or to be sealed.

~ Auliq Ice

Another consequence of not knowing the value of what you possess in this case the value of life is that, there would be some other people around you that will better understand what you possess.

~ Sunday Adelaja

A highly developed values system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost.

~ Idowu Koyenikan