Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
— Buddha
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
That which costs little is less valued.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.
— Hsi-Tang
Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.
Value is what people are willing to pay for it.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.
We get paid for bringing value to the market place.
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
The best thing in life aren't things.
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.
You are only worth has much as you have.
— Saying
Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.
— Terence
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
People should know what you stand for. They should also know what you won't stand for.
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.