Value is what you get.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

For greed all nature is too little.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

As for our majority… one is enough.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

He who is contented is rich.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.