Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
~By James E. Rogers ~
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
~By Ninon de Lenclos ~
Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.
~By William Greider ~
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
~By Ben Elton ~
Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.
~By Joseph Hume ~
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
~By Ellen Goodman ~
Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
~By Adriana Lima ~
Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
~By Aung San Suu Kyi ~
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
~By Roy E. Disney ~
Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
~By Rick Perry ~
The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.
~By Terry Southern ~
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
~By Theodore Hesburgh ~
We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.
~By Mike Pence ~
One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.
~By Rocco Buttiglione ~
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
~By Richard Perle ~
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.
~By Toi Derricotte ~
The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death.
~By Daniel Petrie ~
I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.
~By Jena Malone ~
Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
~By Lance Loud ~
I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
~By Adrian Lyne ~
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.
~By Paul Berg ~
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
~By John Boehner ~
The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.
~By Edward Carpenter ~
Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.
~By Raul Grijalva ~
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved.
~By Peter L. Berger ~
If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.
~By Cecil Taylor ~
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
~By James W. Fulbright ~
My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
~By John Webster ~
It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.
~By Martin Sheen ~
I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that.
~By Howard Dean ~
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children.
~By Mark Foley ~
If we really love and cherish Taiwan, we should hold our hands in unity to protect our country and our democratic values with the most humble and tolerant hearts.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
~By Elia Kazan ~
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
~By Allan Bloom ~
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
~By Thom Mayne ~
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.
~By Joseph A. Schumpeter ~
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
~By Ezra Pound ~
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.
~By David Ricardo ~
Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
~By Daniel De Leon ~
That which costs little is less valued.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.
~By Jose Carreras ~
If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.
~By Sigourney Weaver ~
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
~By Ellis Peters ~
It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
~By Simone Weil ~
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.
~By Cavett Robert ~
If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
~By Arthur Miller ~
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
But everything of value about me is in my books.
~By V. S. Naipaul ~
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
~By Tony Robbins ~
Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.
~By Rebecca West ~
I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.
~By Jim Wallis ~
This is the key to time management - to see the value of every moment.
~By Menachem Mendel Schneerson ~
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.
~By Robert Hewison ~
One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.
~By David Ansen ~
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
~By Sidney Hook ~
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
~By Jena Malone ~
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.
~By Daphne Zuniga ~
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
~By Studs Terkel ~
In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.
~By Arthur C. Brooks ~
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.
~By Major Owens ~
Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.
~By Wes Borland ~
Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.
~By Nassau William Senior ~
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
~By William Osler ~
This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.
~By Kenny Marchant ~
Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.
~By Hosni Mubarak ~
I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
~By Alice James ~
I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
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