value quotes

• They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of Britis. (Daniel Defoe) [value/king]
• The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred... (Franklin Roosevelt) [value/love/willpower/value]
• Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots. (Vladimir Putin) [willpower/value/roots]
• Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. (Thomas Arnold) [knowledge/value/more]
• The New is not a fashion, it is a value. (Roland Barthes) [fashion/value]
• Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. (Warren Buffett) [price/value]
• Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler. (Raymond Chandler) [value/movie/changes]
• Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [value/time/moment/idleness]
• The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something -- war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [value/life/take/storm]
• You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself. (Marcus Cicero) [willpower/value]
• True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. (Charles Caleb Colton) [sound/health/value]
• Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. (Albert Einstein) [science/value]
• Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. (Albert Einstein) [value]
• We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity. (Thomas Eliot) [more/value]
• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [bad/value]
• All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [power/value]
• The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [thing/value]
• The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [value/willpower/disease]
• I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. (Anatole France) [value/gifts/life]
• Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. (Anatole France) [suffering/value/life/pity]
• If you would know the value of money try to borrow some. (Benjamin Franklin) [value/money]
• A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. (Benjamin Franklin) [value/state]
• A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. (Sigmund Freud) [neurosis/value]
• Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value. (Mahatma Gandhi) [life/value]
• Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [value/day]
• It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent celibacy, by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity backward. (Germaine Greer) [chastity/value/value/time]
• The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. (Thomas Hardy) [value/age/men]
• It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. (Stephen Hawking) [intelligence/value]
• Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. (William Hazlitt) [willpower/more/value]
• It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. (Georg Hegel) [value]
• It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. (Henry James) [think/people/value]

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