Quotes with highest-value

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  • Sir William Temple The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Berton Braley The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.
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  • Ben Horowitz The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Burton Cummings The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Oscar Wilde The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alan Cohen The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Ben Elton The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Juvenal The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Sophocles The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
    Motivation and Personality (1954)
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Cat Stevens The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld 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
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Oscar Wilde The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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