Permanent Value Quotes

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

One of the great arts in living is to learn the art of accurately appraising values. Everything that we think, that we earn, that we have given to us, that in any way touches our consciousness, has its own value. These values are apt to change with the mood, with time, or because of circumstances. We cannot safely tie to any material value. The values of all material possessions change continually, sometimes over night. Nothing of this nature has any permanent set value. The real values are those that stay by you, give you happiness and enrich you. They are the human values.

Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

I want to bring out the best in a community and contribute something of permanent value.

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

If you don't put out material that's going to last, you're not going to last.