The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
—Bruce Lee (1940–73) American Martial Artist, Actor, Philosopher
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
—Gloria Steinem (b.1934) American Feminist, Journalist, Social Activist, Political Activist
If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it.
—J. P. Morgan (1837–1913) American Financier, Philanthropist, Art Collector
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr. (1913–70) American Football Player, Coach
Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
—Spanish Proverb
No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
—Common Proverb
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
—Bruce Lee (1940–73) American Martial Artist, Actor, Philosopher
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
—Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American Inventor, Scientist, Entrepreneur
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
—Unknown
First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.
—Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932–2007) Polish Journalist
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
—Denis Waitley (b.1933) American Motivational Speaker, Author
Forbidden things have a secret charm.
—Tacitus (56–117) Roman Orator, Historian
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
A thing is worth precisely what it can do for you; not what you choose to pay for it.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
—Buddhist Teaching
The only salvation of the world today… is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.
—Vaclav Havel (1936–2011) Czech Dramatist, Statesman
Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don’t believe in the good old words because we don’t believe in good old values anymore. And that’s why the world is sick.
—Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese Author, Philologist
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American Head of State
One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
—Agatha Christie (1890–1976) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
—Brian Tracy (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker
My heart is a bargain today. Will you take it?
—W. C. Fields (1880–1946) American Actor, Comedian, Writer
We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
—French Proverb
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
One cannot but wonder at this constantly recurring phrase getting something for nothing, as if it were the peculiar and perverse ambition of disturbers of society. Except for our animal outfit, practically all we have is handed us gratis. Can the most complacent reactionary flatter himself that he invented the art of writing or the printing press, or discovered his religious, economic, and moral convictions, or any of the devices which supply him with meat and raiment or any of the sources of such pleasure as he may derive from literature or the fine arts? In short, civilization is little else than getting something for nothing.
—James Harvey Robinson (1863–1936) American Historian
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
—B. C. Forbes (1880–1954) Scottish-born American Journalist, Publisher
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
—Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1921–2000) American Sociologist
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