Value Quotes

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

If it were easy, it would have no value.

Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

You really don't put a value on your first win, it is priceless no matter where you are.

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

I value my friends.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Since, however, the reduced surplus value is to be distributed among them in like manner, the modification of their respective parts in the production of surplus value must find expression in a modification of the prices.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.

If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the U.S., realize they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."