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Value

«The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.»
«The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more»
«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.»
«Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.»
«Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.»
Author: M. Scott Peck (Author, psychiatrist) | About: Value
«The hope of free man in a frightened world is the values which man puts ahead of inventions when his back is to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.»
«The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used.»
Author: Raymond Rubicam | About: Value | Keywords: A.D., inverse, ratio
«The people who join the mob now are second- and third-generation and don't have the values their predecessors had.»
Author: Ronald Goldstock | About: Generations, Value | Keywords: mob, the mob
«Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.»
Author: Henri Matisse (Artist, Painter) | About: Painting, Time, Value | Keywords: exhausted, extracts
«Thou has done a deed whereat valour will weep.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Value | Keywords: valour, whereat

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