Value Quotes

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.

Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.

America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value.

You know that they're not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.