Valued Quotes

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates

Life, Good, Chiefly

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.
Theodore Roosevelt

Mind, Together, Leader

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

Food, Song, Cheer

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Thomas Merton

Time, Men, Result

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
W. Clement Stone

Alone, Greatest, Giving

Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Thomas Fuller

Health, Sickness, Till

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

Power, Beautiful, Slavery

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

Work, Long, Quality

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
Noam Chomsky

Freedom, Human, May

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Men, Society

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
Emily Bronte

Living, Dead, Precious

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
Herbert Read

Power, Worth, Culture

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.
Louis D. Brandeis

Happiness, Courage, End

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.
Julia Roberts

Through, Enough, Cannot

That which costs little is less valued.
Miguel de Cervantes

There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
Danica McKellar

Time, Long, Else

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.
Anna Quindlen

Good, Women, Opinion

In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects, and no one is better at making everyone she meets feel valued.
Jonathan Sacks

Everyone, Her, She

I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.
Bryan Cranston

Love, Work, Time

I've always been a private person, and I've always valued my private life.
Amber Heard

Life, Person, Private

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.
Jane Fonda

Work, Women, Film

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour.
Anthony Trollope

Wine, Price, Flavour

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.
Jeff Bezos

Matter, Actually, Matters

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.
Frank Pittman

Good, Strong, Important

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
Rachael Ray

Life, Good, Home

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
Gloria Steinem

Work, Social, Value

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

Job, Feeling, Once

When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.
Mariska Hargitay

Made, Try, Everyone

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.
Anne Bronte

Father, Children, Poor

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.
Gregory Bateson

Money, Less, Supposedly

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