Top 100 Value Things Quotes
#1. Maybe war makes you value things and people more than you did when there was Peace and you knew there would never be a shortage?
Barbara Mutch
#2. The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.
Dee Hock
#3. 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
#4. The More we value things, the less we value ourselves
Bruce Lee
#5. I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
Oded Fehr
#6. Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
Mortimer Adler
#7. If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly,
I'd be sorry.
But I value things unpossessed.
The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.
Dorothy Hartley
#8. You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.
Haylie Duff
#9. There is no place for someone like him in the Society, I think, for someone who can create. He can do so many things of incomparable value, things no one else can do, and the Society doesn't care about that at all.
Ally Condie
#10. I suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing.
Kenneth Branagh
#11. People only value things in their life when it is taken away from them.
Bushra Satkhed
#12. The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Epictetus
#14. It is a piece of weakness and folly merely to value things because of their distance from the place where we are born.
Martin Martin
#15. [A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.
Georges Bernanos
#16. The concept of virginity is a social construct. If you're wondering if my commercial value, self-respect, and/or quality of my immortal soul has been affected by things that have gone in or out of my vagina the answer is no.
Christy Leigh Stewart
#18. One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it's friends who esteem marriage that will do this; not people who belittle it or question the value of it.
Ashleigh Slater
#19. I have made many mistakes and done a lot of foolish things, but when I look back on the person I was, I feel affection for him and laugh at him.
Thomas Moore
#20. Excellence comes from human beings doing things of value that customers find memorable.
Tom Peters
#21. It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.
Eric Maisel
#22. When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling ... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what value does that put on love?
Marilyn Manson
#23. If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.
Julius Erving
#24. 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
#25. We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.
Anthony Horowitz
#26. In general, sharing and using things decreases their value. However, knowledge increases by implementation and especially by sharing among people.
Eraldo Banovac
#27. Before I met Mr. Shoaff, I used to ask, "How much does it cost?" But he taught me to ask, "What is it worth?" When I started to base my life on value instead of price, all kinds of things began to happen.
Jim Rohn
#28. I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.
Wendy E. Long
#29. Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn't stuck with the present
David J. Schwartz
#30. I'm definitely scared about newspapers. The problem is nobody wants to catch a falling knife, and nobody knows where things will stabilise. The value of newspapers has dropped significantly. I think we still have more pain to be felt.
Jared Kushner
#31. There were so many things of value in the original Mac that it is still recognizable.
Phil Schiller
#32. We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.
Robert Scoble
#33. Things I say have value and I would love for you to value them, however you get it.
Lil' Wayne
#34. Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.
Gretchen Rubin
#35. I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
Herbie Hancock
#36. Reason tells the soul how mistaken it is in thinking that all these earthly things are of the slightest value by comparison with what it is seeking. A little recollection reminds it that all these things come to an end. And faith instructs it in what the soul must do to find satisfaction ...
Eknath Easwaran
#37. A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience.
Brooke Waggoner
#38. Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. ... We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.
Joan D. Chittister
#39. 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
#40. For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.
Carol S. Dweck
#41. Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
Barry Eisler
#42. The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to see the true meaning of things. As Pike proved daily, books held a kind of magic, an apparent as well as a hidden value.
Sheridan Hay
#43. As I near the end of my life...
I have determined that
Most of the things I have learned
Will be of little value to me
At the end of my Life".
Stephen Wehunt
#44. To love someone is not first of all to do things for them,but to reveal to them their beauty and value, to say to them through our attitude: 'You are beautiful. You are important. I trust you. You can trust yourself.'
Jean Vanier
#45. Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#46. Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don't add value to the bottom line.
Carlos Slim
#47. Two good indicators of revealed preferences are things the people tend to value a lot: time and money. If you look at how they spend their time and how they spend their money, you can infer quite a lot about their real preferences.
Douglas W. Hubbard
#49. Stop making things of less value your food for thought each moment of time! Your mind is precious. Mind your mind!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#50. We have things of value but you can never find them because you don't even know how to look. They
Ally Condie
#51. Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.
Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
#52. As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value.
Samuel Johnson
#53. If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.
Tony Kushner
#54. Before seeking the true value of things, you must first define its true meaning.
Adele Mandez
#55. Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other. Custom had dinned into his ears
H.P. Lovecraft
#56. Maybe we all need to leave our children with a value legacy, and not a financial one. A value for things with a personal touch - an autographed book, a soul-searching letter.
Lakshmi Pratury
#57. We need to get smarter about hardware and software innovation in order to get the most value from the emerging Internet of Things.
Henry Samueli
#58. In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.
Kimberly Quinn
#59. You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.
Moby
#60. We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.
Tanya R. Liverman
#61. The reason we need books like these is that the Gospels cannot simply be taken at face value as giving us historically reliable accounts of the things Jesus said and did.
Bart D. Ehrman
#62. The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.
Ben Horowitz
#63. He claimed that a man's life should be valued according to the value of the things to which he gave his attention.
Marcus Aurelius
#64. For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things? [27]
Epictetus
#65. One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.
Roy Romer
#66. Those things you can buy have no value but have a price. Those things you cannot buy have value and are priceless.
Debasish Mridha
#67. When you work on a Jerry Bruckheimer film, you can be sure of two things: no production value will be spared, and the catering will be as fine as any really really good restaurant. Jerry is an amazing producer, with a commitment to his films second to none.
William Fichtner
#68. We're all too apt to think that things are as we feel them to be, forgetting that they have an objective value apart from what we feel about them. An embittered mind colors the world black for its owner yet that does not alter the fact that the world is a treasure house of beauty and love.
Elizabeth Goudge
#69. In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.
David Graeber
#70. Boundaries protect the things that are of value to you. They keep you in alignment with what you have decided you want in life. That means the key to good boundaries is knowing what you want.
Adelyn Birch
#71. I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.
Karisma Kapoor
#72. I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin
#73. The consciousness of one's inner value is anchored in higher, more spiritual things, and cannot be shaken by camp life. But how many free men, let alone prisoners, possess it?
Viktor E. Frankl
#74. In addition to the physical value of things, there are three other factors that add value to our belongings: function, information, and emotional attachment.
Marie Kondo
#75. You almost threw it back!' she repeated, and her voice filled with mock horror.
'You foolish boy! Are you always so careless with items of value?'
'No,' he said, abruptly sober. 'I know what matters. And I never throw those things away. I hold on to them as long as I can.
Sharon Shinn
#76. Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think.
Elizabeth Berg
#78. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything. - Julian Blackthorn
Cassandra Clare
#79. There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection
except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.
Thomas Huxley
#80. I think there's something important in going against the grain, and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.
Kehinde Wiley
#81. Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.
Gustave Flaubert
#82. In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.
Damon Galgut
#84. The most wonderful things that life can offer do not have price tags.
Debasish Mridha
#85. To waste valuable time on stressing over those who treat you unkindly, accomplish nothing of importance. Rather, that time should be spent working on most important things, that actually
create something of value that is worth your time.
Ellen J. Barrier
#86. The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity
their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.
Edith Wharton
#87. It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but thatthey want to impress others, want to be admired and respected because of things of much lower import and value.
Stefan Zweig
#88. Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.
Saint Frances De Sales
#89. We have things of value, but you could never find them because you don't even know how to look.
Ally Condie
#90. Why do people value most the things they haven't got?
Marty Rubin
#91. Women have to be very vigilant, and demand the very best in public schools, health care and pay, those things that men and women of this state value are at risk.
Bev Perdue
#92. I pity those who make much ado about the transitory nature of all things and are lost in the contemplation of earthly vanity: are we not here to make the transitory permanent? This we can do only if we know how to value both.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#93. The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#94. I trade in information, Geels, the things men do when they think no one is looking. Shame holds more value than coin ever can.
Leigh Bardugo
#95. Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.
William Stanley Jevons
#96. A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
Lafcadio Hearn
#97. Miss Greenshaw appeared to have no fear of burglars, and was probably justified, as most things in the house weighed several tons and were of no marketable value.
Agatha Christie
#98. While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.
Stephen Bayley
#99. There's an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials ... I come across many things which have been abandoned and find something more in them than their intrinsic worthlessness.
Ptolemy
#100. There are young men who want thrills but no longer value sex, so they do completely different things, including aggressive things.
Volkmar Sigusch
