Quotes about Value
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
— Mark Twain
Even if our contact with eternal beings is slight, none the less because of its surpassing value this knowledge is a greater pleasure than our knowledge of everything around us.
— Aristotle
the Chief Good we feel instinctively must be something which is our own, and not easily to be taken from us.
— Aristotle
To a great mind, nothing is little," remarked Holmes, sententiously.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.
— Henry David Thoreau
The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nothing important happens in life without a cost.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.
— John Maxwell
Spend your time with people who recognise and appreciate your value.
— Mensah Oteh
Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
— John Milton
Rather than be less car'd not to be at all.
— John Milton
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.
— John Piper