It’s not good for all of our wishes to be fulfilled. Through sickness, we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

                            —Greek proverb

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the things itself, by people.

                                 —John Barth

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

                         —Albert Einstein

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

                              —John Ruskin

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

                           —Thomas Paine

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

                       —John F. Kennedy

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

                              —David Ansen

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.

              —Henry David Thoreau

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

          —Charles Dudley Warner

Do you value people who won’t benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value.

                       —John C. Maxwell

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

                              —Allan Bloom