Quotes of Valued - somelinesforyou

“ We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out. ”

- Diana Krall

“ Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ”

- Justice Louis D. Brandeis

“ To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling. ”

- Barbara Walters

“ The right to be alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man. ”

- Justice Louis D. Brandeis

“ The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act. ”

- Alice Meynell

“ Health is not valued till sickness comes. ”

- Dr. Thomas Fuller

“ Not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued. ”

- Socrates

“ Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back. ”

- Princess Diana

“ Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. ”

- Emily Bronte

“ A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood. ”

- Phillip C. Grant

“ If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. ”

- J. R. R. Tolkien

“ W our civilization could be, if not promoted, at least better endured. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly. ”

- Blaine Lee

“ The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days. ”

- Deidre Hall

“ It teaches that war is cruel and wasteful but sometimes necessary. That a blundering victory is more to be valued than a heroic defeat. That might and right sometimes come to the same end. All these things happened on June 6, 1944. ”

- Otto Friedrich

“ Today's newest breed of employee is the self-manager. These workers are the ones who survived the recent waves of downsizing, both by seeking and capitalizing on new opportunities and by learning new skills. Because these employees increasingly possess the skills and technological tools to supervise themselves - individually or in teams - they are eliminating the need for layers of management… ”

- John Cahllenger

“ The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed upon him by his vision… ”

- John Jay Chapman

“ For character too is a process and an unfolding… among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations? ”

- George Eliot

“ Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life. ”

- Thomas B. Macaulay
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