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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Norman Vincent Peale
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Thomas A. Edison
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Thomas A. Edison
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
H. L. Mencken
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. Mencken
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Stephen Hawking
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
William Osler
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
Richard Dawkins
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Virginia Woolf
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
Alexis de Tocqueville