Quotes About Value

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.

A wandering carpenter, called Stone, saw on his travels a gigantic old oak tree standing in a field near an earth-altar. The carpenter said to his apprentice, who was admiring the oak: "This is a useless tree. If you wanted to make a ship, it would soon rot; if you wanted to make tools, they would break. You can't do anything useful with this tree, and that's why it has become so old.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

It had been weeks since anyone had even tried to kill him. As long as someone was trying to kill you, you knew you were important.

Why did he deserve to live when everyone around him died?

Esas botas están hechas por artesanos del clan- diría su madre-. ¿Sabes lo que cuestan?¿Piensas que me sobra el dinero? El que no hubiera tenido que pagarlas carecía de importancia.

Seandainya Amerika dapat mengerti perasaan kami dan ketidaknyaman kami, dia akan menyadari bahwa lautan dollar takkan dapat merebut hati kami.

I'm learning to cling tightly to the love we're granted. Whether you have one year or a lifetime, don't forget that love is a gift. A gift to be appreciated and nurtured—for better or worse.

Things can be cleaned and replaced. Great moments cannot afford to be lost.

We all have value and the right to find as much peace with ourselves and our flaws and weaknesses as possible. Why would forgiveness be so important to God if we didn't need it all the time? He knew we would need it from Him, but also from us for ourselves and for others. When we get peace with our weakest areas, we'll find new ways to build on our strongest areas.

I had no more value after I became an author than when I was in my home tending to runny noses, little bumps and bruises. . . Our value can't be wrapped inside what others think or we think, because that is too dependent on this ever-shifting world. The value God places on us makes us more than we think we are, even on our hardest days, weeks, or years.

One little deed done in time is worth more than a thousand good intentions.

Value people because of who they were deep down, not because of their names or their parents' clout.

These are people whose names are lost to history, but when you have that kind of encounter, somehow you get a whole new perspective on what's of value and how to behave in the face of oppression, and the strength that any single person or a group of people can bring with their own will.

I'm cashmere, for God's sake," it grumbles. "I deserve better than Rubbermaid.

Danger is what makes life precious. Death is the constant danger of life.

Quando rezava conseguia um oco de alma - e esse oco é o tudo que posso eu jamais ter. Mais do que isso, nada. Mas o vazio tem valor e a semelhança do pleno. Um meio de obter é não procurar, um meio de ter é o de não pedir e somente acreditar que o silêncio que eu creio em mim é resposta e meu - a meu mistério.

It's like having a coin and not knowing in which country it is legal tender.

Why publish what is worthless? Perhaps the worthy is also worthless. Besides, what is obviously worthless has always fascinated me. I have a real affection for things which are incomplete or badly finished, for things awkwardly try to take flight only to fall clumsily to the ground.

Uma pessoa leu meus contos e disse que aquilo não era literatura, era lixo. Concordo. Mas há hora para tudo. Há também a hora do lixo. (Someone read my stories and said that it wasn't literature, it was rubbish. I agree. But there is time for everything. There's also garbage time).

The best student portfolios must feature these attributes, among others, if they are to be of most value: The collections of work will cover years, even decades. Only over time can the threads of passions and other themes be drawn. They will be multimedia, using words, photographs, and video clips. They will include external validation, where appropriate. This may include awards, references in local papers, and letters of thanks from recipients.

We don't know the value of darkness until we have destroyed it.

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.