Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

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

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

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

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

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

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

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.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

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

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

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

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

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

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.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

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

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there’s always a question of taste.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.