Real Value Quotes

• Real value means people value-and creating value really means helping people choose better lives.

  Oliver DeMille

  Real, Mean, Creating Value

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• It's not always easy to do what's not popular, but that's where you make your money. Buy stocks that look bad to less careful investors and hang on until their real value is recognized.

  John Neff

  Real, Looks, Easy

  "John Neff on Investing". Book by John Neff, October 22, 1999.

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• The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Real, Knowledge, Age

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• The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

  Ben Elton

  Real, Doe, World

  Ben Elton (2008). “Stark: Satirical Thriller”, p.26, Random House

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• Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

  A.C. Grayling

  Life, Integrity, Real

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• Actors don't have real value.

  Uwe Boll

  Real, Actors, Values

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• Back in 1960, the paper dollar and the silver dollar both were the same value. They circulated next to each other. Today? The paper dollar has lost 95% of its value, while the silver dollar is worth $34, and produced a 2-3 times rise in real value. Since we left the gold standard in 1971, both gold and silver have become superior inflation hedges.

  Mark Skousen

  Real, Gold, Dollars

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• Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, Commodity, Values

  Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

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• The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Prejudice, Values

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comœdo, X. 29, p. 647-49, 1922.

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• There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability.

  Shane Claiborne

  Real, Church, Share

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne on Common Prayer". www.readthespirit.com. 2012.

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• Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Art, Real

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• The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Real, Blind, Great Men

  Holbrook Jackson (1912). “All Manner of Folk: Interpretations and Studies”, p.31, Ardent Media

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• This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Believe, Forgiving

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• If there is anything worth serving, it's this love. If there is anything worth being, it's this love. If there is anything worth talking about it's this love. If there is anything of real value it's this love.

  Kenny Johnson

  Real, Talking, Ifs

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• The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits. But scripture here helps us out with an excellent argument when it teaches us that we must not think of man's real value, but only of his creation in the image of God to which we owe all possible honor and love.

  John Calvin

  Love, Real, Men

  "Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life". Book by John Calvin, 1550.

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• A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.

  Cedric Price

  Real, Quality, Improvement

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• It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . .

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Jobs, Real, Makers

  Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (2017). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.98, Pickle Partners Publishing

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  Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Dream, Real, Odds

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.11, Vintage

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• To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Atmosphere, Gold

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.181

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• No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Writing, Expression

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• If you look at a photograph, and you think, 'My isn't that a beautiful photograph,' and you go on to the next one, or 'Isn't that nice light?' so what? I mean what does it do to you or what's the real value in the long run? What do you walk away from it with? I mean, I'd much rather show you a photograph that makes demands on you, that you might become involved in on your own terms or be perplexed by.

  Duane Michals

  Beautiful, Running, Real

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• Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Real, Lying, Men

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.83, Read Books Ltd

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• If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.

  William Ralph Inge

  Giving Up, Real, Fall

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• The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive, but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals.

  Robin Sharma

  Real, Lying, Goal

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jun 25, 2014

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• The great lesson of the Internet revolution is not that people never want personal service, just that they won't pay for personal service that does not add real value to the transaction.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  Real, People, Doe

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