Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
~By Albert Einstein ~
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~
That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.
~By Jeff Miller ~
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
~By William Osler ~
For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.
~By Fritz Todt ~
Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
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 ~
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
~By Willie Stargell ~
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
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 ~
Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.
~By Jack Kingston ~
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
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 ~
A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
~By Paul Scofield ~
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.
~By Robert Fortune ~
I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.
~By Tom Coburn ~
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
~By Sissy Spacek ~
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
~By John Tuley ~
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 ~
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
~By Emile Durkheim ~
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.
~By Paul Dirac ~
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.
~By Hassanal Bolkiah ~
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.
~By Susie Bright ~
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.
~By Kinky Friedman ~
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~
I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
~By Howard Barker ~
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.
~By Joan Blades ~
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
~By Simone Weil ~
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
~By David F. Houston ~
Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.
~By Marvin Bower ~
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
~By Harry Browne ~
While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.
~By Michael K. Simpson ~
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.
~By Thomas Menino ~
Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.
~By Bill Shuster ~
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
~By Richard Perle ~
I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.
~By Shelby Foote ~
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~By Graham Greene ~
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
~By Swami Sivananda ~
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
~By Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ~
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
~By Luigi Pirandello ~
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 ~
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
~By J. Paul Getty ~
I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
~By Roland Barthes ~
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.
~By David Ricardo ~
There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
~By George Chapman ~
My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.
~By Kathleen Blanco ~
I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.
~By Patricia Hewitt ~
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
~By Stephan Jenkins ~
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing.
~By Alan Perlis ~
America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.
~By Paul Sarbanes ~
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
~By Warren Buffett ~
Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.
~By Leland Stanford ~
You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.
~By Brit Hume ~
Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
~By John Tukey ~
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 ~
A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
~By Joseph Addison ~
This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
~By John W. Gardner ~
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
~By Karl Marx ~
For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.
~By Kit Bond ~
Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.
~By Loretta Young ~
From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.
~By Alex Campbell ~
Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different.
~By Mark Rydell ~
The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.
~By Silvia Cartwright ~
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.
~By Rene Daumal ~
I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.
~By Robert Stack ~
Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
~By Wally Lamb ~
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
~By Edwin Booth ~
Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.
~By Alfred Rosenberg ~
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.
~By Charles Lamb ~
We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.
~By Thomas Vilsack ~
I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.
~By Ella Maillart ~
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
~By Thomas More ~
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
~By Richard Stallman ~
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 ~
Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs).
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something that depended not only on the three-month interest rate, but on other interest rates as well.
~By John Hull ~
Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.
~By Hilary Rosen ~
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