Great Value Quotes

• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• ~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Satisfaction In Life, Use

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 20

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• In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gratitude, Priorities, Misery

  "Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams".

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• Engaging the body in acts of being present with God, including certain ceremonial practices, opens us up to God in new ways. People of faith in ancient times understood that such physical acts and practices as rest and worship, dietary restrictions, and mandated fabric in their wardrobes were of great value to their faith and life.

  Doug Pagitt

  Practice, People, Fabric

  Doug Pagitt, Kathryn Prill (2013). “BodyPrayer: The Posture of Intimacy with God”, p.12, WaterBrook

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• I know of nothing that I feel is of so great value in life as to be obedient to the counsel and advice of the Lord, and of His servants in this our day.

  Heber J. Grant

  Life, Advice, Lord

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• While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.

  Stephen Bayley

  Effort, Challenges, Century

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• A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Ideas, May, Spirit

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• Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Humility, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• I really want be of great value for the team.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Team, Want, Values

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• We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

  Tom Tancredo

  Country, Sacrifice, Unique

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties. How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see, the words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.

  Bernie Siegel

  Teacher, Love You, Soul

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.142, Random House

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• It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value.

  Matthew Fontaine Maury

  Time, Science, People

  Matthew Fontaine Maury (1858). “Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts”, p.91

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• I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.

  Anderson Cooper

  Thinking, Events, Fields

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Motivational, Lying

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• Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  This Life, Values

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• The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods," such as food and fuel, where the utilization and consumption of the good are tightly bound together in a single act or event. ... any economy in the consumption of fuel that enables us to maintain warmth or to generate power with lessened consumption again leaves us better off. ... there is no great value in consumption itself.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Knights, Together, Events

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• You are the only one who creates in your experience - no one else. Everything that comes to you comes by the power of your thought. If there are changes you would like to make, it will be of great value to begin telling a different story - not only about your body, but about all subjects that have been troubling to you. As you begin to positively focus, getting to feel so good about so many subjects, you will begin to feel the power that creates worlds flowing through you.

  Esther Hicks

  Creativity, Focus, Body

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• What has a great value to us as a nation is the internet itself. The internet is critical infrastructure to the United States. We use the internet for every communication that businesses rely on every day.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, United States, Use

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Taken, Ideas, People

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• In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Mean, Together, Hindsight

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love vintage and I shop vintage a lot because it's just such great value for money.

  Lianne La Havas

  Vintage, Shops, Values

  "Fashion Q&A: Lianne La Havas". Interview with Celia L. Smith, www.essence.com. July 26, 2012.

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• Great people have great values and great ethics.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  People, Ethics, Values

  Twitter post from Mar 13, 2016

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• There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Mistake, Thank God, Disaster

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• In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not entirely good. Our gain was also a loss... There was great value in something well observed and carefully delineated. If the head and heart were often absent, there was something to be said for the presence of a hand.

  R. O. Blechman

  Art, Loss, Hands

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• The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.

  John Tillotson

  Nice, Men, Dust

  John Tillotson (1712). “The works of the most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: containing fifty four sermons and discourses ... Together with the rule of faith”, p.386

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