Value Quotes

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

I'm going to continue doing my thing and work my butt off to add value for shareholders and as long as they and the board see fit to keep me in this role, I feel enormously privileged to serve.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.