Quotes about Value

Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

Look: invest in what you understand, what's foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what's trendy.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

We must never forget the value of work because without it people are denied a sense of dignity and of community.

Whenever you exclude God and the value system that He represents out of the equation of a life, of a family, or a culture, you create a spiritual vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum. It must be filled with something.

It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.

People are more important than fussing over preparations. Why, I haven't even been good company for Wynn, I realized, looking back in humiliation over some of our last evenings spent together. Well, I would change that. After all, a marriage was of far more importance than a wedding.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.

You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.