Top 100 People Value Quotes
#1. True courage knows fear. It knows how to fear that which should be feared. Honest people value life passionately, they hang on to it like a precious jewel. And they pick the right time and place to surrender it, to die with dignity.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#2. The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.
Jarvis Cocker
#3. What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is 'glory'? What kind of victory is 'glorious'?
Bruce Lee
#4. I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
Adam Mansbach
#5. The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.
Vivian Campbell
#6. People who other people value get job offers, they get opportunities, and they get encouragement all because they are valued.
Andy Andrews
#7. People value people who value people.
Tony Curl
#9. Why do people value most the things they haven't got?
Marty Rubin
#10. Investing scarce resources in large-scale public projects and capital goods does increase output, but it does not contribute to economic progress if these investments do not produce things people value.
Christopher J. Coyne
#12. How do you know what people value? Well, you watch what they buy. How do we know what products to create? Well, it's based on what they value.
Peter Senge
#13. People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
Zhuangzi
#14. I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
Bob Weir
#15. People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.
Amity Shlaes
#16. Why do people value others' time so little? Now we would have the inevitable small talk. I could have spent fifteen minutes at home practicing aikido.
Graeme Simsion
#17. Sometimes, you can be more than enough for someone, but they choose not to be in your life. Always remember that Satan works hard to keep people miserable by feeding their fears, so they stay in their comfort zone. The truth is some people value what is predictable, more than chemistry.
Shannon L. Alder
#18. People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.
Richard A. Kidd
#19. For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.
Jason Blum
#20. Real value means people value-and creating value really means helping people choose better lives.
Oliver DeMille
#21. There's the dual challenge of wanting to speak from an authentic place, and then being able to be honest about it. Even in the most mannered art, I think that's what people value, is a voice that comes from a real place.
John Darnielle
#22. The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty; the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge. Justice is a mean between these two extremes. People value it not because it is a good but because they are too weak to do injustice with impunity.
Plato
#23. In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources, and weakens our economy.
Charles Koch
#24. Two kinds of clarity support habit formation: clarity of values and clarity of action. The clearer I am about what I value, and what action I expect from myself - not what other people value, or expect from me - the more likely I am to stick to my habits.
Gretchen Rubin
#25. People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
Larry Elder
#26. What she really wants is a place with more tolerance for differences, less emphasis on materialism, where people value creativity and are interested in working on issues relating to peace and justice.
Peter Singer
#27. It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
Kenneth L. Pike
#28. I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.
Peter Coyote
#29. Funny how people value eyes, when really, their colors are super limited. I doubt anyone would enjoy a new box of crayons if they came only in eye-color shades.
Courtney C. Stevens
#30. When people value your leadership practices, they in effect buy your leadership. They're inspired to excel and act with commitment. But when employees don't buy your leadership, they disengage, becoming noncustomers of your leadership.
Anonymous
#31. It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.
James Cash Penney
#32. Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.
Jane McGonigal
#33. If you want to cry, then cry. Decide by yourself whether you are important or not. Even if other people value you, nobody can do anything for you. Ultimately, it's your problem so if you live without regrets, then over time I think that your problems would disappear.
Kyo
#34. People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.
Rodney Stark
#35. People value happiness by what it costs.
Dave Duncan
#36. The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.
Maxwell Maltz
#37. I will always try to be happy. I don't think people really understand the value of happiness until they know what it's like to be in that very, very dark place. It's not romantic. Not even a little.
Sarah Silverman
#38. Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.
Joan Caulfield
#39. I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc.
Henry Rollins
#40. I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
Vincent Van Gogh
#41. In general, sharing and using things decreases their value. However, knowledge increases by implementation and especially by sharing among people.
Eraldo Banovac
#42. The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are not crazy because they don't dare, they're crazy because they do. These people tend to enjoy life to the fullest, laugh the hardest, travel the most, and work the least.
Lisa Morgan
#43. It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too.
Sharon Law Tucker
#44. As managers rise up the hierarchy, a host of situational forces come to bear on them which can easily undermine their respect for the people on the front lines, and hence cause them to disregard the value in front-line ideas.
Dean M. Schroeder
#45. I'm like a small farmer who interacts with people who consume what I make and tend my little patch of ground, and the Spotifys of the world, which are like McDonald's, are going to make people less aware of how the thing gets made and of its value.
David Bazan
#46. I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
#47. Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#48. Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.
Anna Deavere Smith
#49. That your friends have those opinions, however, does not mean that they don't love you or value you as a friend or otherwise think you are one of the best people they know.
Cheryl Strayed
#50. What hell does is recognize that people have intrinsic value. If God loves intrinsic value, then he has go to be a sustainer of persons, because that means he is a sustainer of intrinsic value.
J.P. Moreland
#51. Personal Branding is the combination of one's skills and talents to produce value for people that creates an impression, a perception and reputation in the mind of others
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#52. The value of their money was imaginary. Like the nature of the universe itself, the desirability of their American dollars and yen was all in people's heads.
Kurt Vonnegut
#53. Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#54. If a lot of people feel like this company is undervalued and go out and buy the stock, the stock price will go up reflecting the higher value of this company. You might have information because you trade with them or because you've done some research on them.
Robert F. Engle
#56. I call hellfire a threat," Natasha said, " and 'love thy neighbor' a value. But I believe in hell, or something close to it. I think hell is what we get right here on earth when people trade their spiritual and political values in on spiritual and political threats.
David James Duncan
#57. Two ( or more) people come together and they agree that they should be together for a common purpose and that purpose is to add value to one another. ENGAGEMENTS are partnerships that should ALWAYS be Win-Win.
John C. Maxwell
#58. Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.
Tullian Tchividjian
#59. Yes, she would have been partial to men, perhaps she might even have confined herself to one man in particular, if only she had been able to find one who shared her view that intimacy between two people was of value irrespective of whether it led to sticky conflux.
Jonathan Coe
#60. Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.
Laozi
#61. I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice.
Ricky Williams
#62. People aren't studying the natural world any more, they're mining it. It's a looter mentality. Anything new or unknown is automatically of interest, because it might have value. It might be worth a fortune.
Michael Crichton
#63. The good movies that people want to keep are probably creating their value more than anything else.
Bill Mechanic
#64. Don't think people with talent necessarily value it, because it all comes so easy to them, and we never value things that come easy to us.
Nick Hornby
#65. Work out what is truly important to you. Research shows people with consistently high happiness scores prioritise their life according to the things they value. They've worked out what is most important to them and don't allow themselves to get sidetracked.
Robert Holden
#66. We look for things or people that are incorruptible. There is nothing incorruptible, merely uncorrupted. We neglect the role we play. We value innocence, but only the kind we cannot alter. We throw mud at purity and mock it for its stain.
James Rozoff
#67. When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.
David Elkind
#68. Integrity has a high psychological and philosophical value, for many people it is a highest value, it associate with health of soul. Dualism, contradiction, torments of hesitation - is something of illness, integrity is health, people strive for it instinctively.
Simon Soloveychik
#69. Love is helping people toward the greatest beauty, the highest value, the deepest satisfaction, the most lasting joy, the biggest reward, the most wonderful friendship, and the most overwhelming worship - love is helping people toward God.
John Piper
#70. The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal.
Jack Welch
#71. I would say I was challenging the system quite. But I like to think that if the choices I make are slightly unexpected or challenging to people, then that is good. We are definitely three fairly like-minded people in terms of what we value in scripts and in storytelling.
Daniel Radcliffe
#72. Don't pay attention to the people that hate you but why they do, as that's where you find your real value and uniqueness.
Daniel Marques
#73. I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
Peter Jennings
#74. The world is filled with people who understand. I personally value people who don't understand. People who understand have nothing more to learn. People who don't understand have hope. Do you understand?
Frederick Lenz
#75. Whether someone is useful only matters if you value people by their use.
Corinne Duyvis
#76. people seem to be more motivated by the thought of losing something than by the thought of gaining something of equal value.
Robert B. Cialdini
#77. The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.
Paul Auster
#78. I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws ... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.
Alan Dershowitz
#79. The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.
Mick Cornett
#80. Lying is the work of people who are told their truths have no value.
The labour of survival is laden with myth and misunderstanding.
Silence is the work of people who can't comprehend that change is possible.
Amber Dawn
#81. Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.
Fran Tarkenton
#82. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.
Kevin Smith
#83. The True measure of a person's success is to be a person of value.' I knew people of value, people who kept their promises, people who were kind, people who were loyal.
Marjorie Hart
#84. Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value?
Frederick Carl Frieseke
#85. Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it ... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.
Jason Reitman
#86. People who do not have a price tag attached to them are priceless.
Amit Abraham
#87. How your social network - the people that you know, or in your community - understand or value a work can be ... a tremendously relevant indicator of how important or meaningful it's going to be to you.
David Weinberger
#88. People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
Salman Khan
#90. Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until farther down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand.
Nalini Singh
#91. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#92. The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've ... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.
John Katzman
#93. In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.
James Marsters
#94. Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
Edgar Meyer
#95. The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#96. My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.
Taya Kyle
#97. What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?
Nafis Sadik
#98. There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.
Elizabeth Berg
#99. For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.
Daniel Morgan
#100. I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.'
E.L. James
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