Real Value Quotes

• Real value means people value-and creating value really means helping people choose better lives.

  Oliver DeMille

  Real, Mean, Creating Value

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• It's not always easy to do what's not popular, but that's where you make your money. Buy stocks that look bad to less careful investors and hang on until their real value is recognized.

  John Neff

  Real, Looks, Easy

  "John Neff on Investing". Book by John Neff, October 22, 1999.

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• The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Real, Knowledge, Age

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• People’s lives are often other than they seem to be on the surface. And sometimes, what’s underneath and hidden is the best part of all, the part of real value.

  Stan Barstow

  Real, People, Sometimes

  Stan Barstow (1969). “The hidden part”

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• The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.

  Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

  Photography, Mother, Country

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• Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

  Charles William Eliot

  Philosophy, Real, Men

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• One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, Real

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.7, Thomas Nelson

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• Luxurious food and drinks, in no way protect you from harm. Wealth beyond what is natural, is no more use than an overflowing container. Real value is not generated by theaters, and baths, perfumes or ointments, but by philosophy.

  Epicurus

  Philosophy, Real, Use

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• If we only knew the real value of a day.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  Real, Ifs, Values

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• Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

  Michael A. Stackpole

  Wise, Real, Lying

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• A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he, as an individual, is capable of bringing it, when an exact correspondence is established between the whole of his abstract ideas and the things he has actually perceived for himself. His will mean that each of his abstract ideas rests, directly or indirectly, upon a basis of observation, which alone endows it with any real value; and also that he is able to place every observation he makes under the right abstract idea which belongs to it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Mean, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• In the end, you do need institutions to transmit the faith for the long haul. That's why I make the case that, in certain ways, American Protestants could stand to recover the denominationalism that they've left behind over the last 50 years. They are real values in having a confessional tradition that can sustain your faith over the long term.

  Ross Douthat

  Real, Years, Long

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has been destroyed. Our dead heroes will have won immortality. Civilisation will have gained new vitality. Humanity will have entered upon a richer heritage.

  Horatio Bottomley

  Real, War, Hero

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• The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem solved is dead. A world without problems to be solved would be devoid of science.

  Frederick Soddy

  Real, Knowledge, Science

  Frederick Soddy (1912). “Matter and energy”

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• The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

  Graham Greene

  Truth, Honesty, Kindness

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

  Charles Lamb

  Christmas, Thank You, Gratitude

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.288

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• All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Block, Selfish

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• Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

  James Clavell

  Real, Important, Titles

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.207, Dell

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• The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: "This is water." "This is water." It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Simple, Sight

  "This Is Water". David Foster Wallace's commencement speech at Kenyon College, www.youtube.com. May 21, 2005.

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• We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.

  John Green

  Sad, Pain, Real

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• The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Frustration, Vanity

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• Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

  Victor Hugo

  Spiritual, Jobs, Real

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• . . . But experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is instirring within us the will to aspire. That will, wherever it finally leads, does at least move you forward. And after a time you may recognize That the proper measure of success is not how much you've closed the distance to some far-off goal but the quality of what you've done today.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Dream, Real, Distance

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.11, Vintage

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• The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.

  Edward Bernays

  Real, Democracy, Receiving

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.

  Pablo Picasso

  Real, Giving, Would Be

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