Quotes About Value

Someone who undervalues himself eventually will blame others for his depreciation.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

I was always desired. But now i am valued. And that is a different thing, i find.

That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.

You have always regarded women as disposable, my lord, and you cannot complain if in the end they think the same of you.

You could not know, sir, what Katherine was asking.' That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.

That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.

The poor labourer owns his sleep and his stool, and can sell his piss to the fuller, whereas the king's piss and stool is the property of all England...should his bowel be loose, its product is taken away in a bowl under an embroidered cloth. They can only judge what is within him, by what comes out: a pity he is not made of glass.

Maximilien, cerca di imparare questa verità», disse padre Herivaux, «gli uomini per la maggior parte sono pigri e ti valuteranno secondo la considerazione che tu hai di te stesso. Assicurati dunque che sia alta».

But what's the point? he thinks. She would die and leave me. Or I would die and leave her. It's not worth it. Nobody's worth it.

My comrades are alive right now!! The Exceeds are alive too!! Whether they've got magic or not, the important thing is that they're alive! These are lives, dammit!

Why do you find it easy to kill? These are lives dammit!

I've always... cherished you

Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.

In the end all that remains are numbers, the measurement of distances, the quantity of things.

To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books, her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself.

I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.

You have a skill. You can do something no one else can," Barron says. "Seriously. You know what's good about that? It's valuable. As in you can trade it for goods or services. Or money. Remember when I said it was wasted on you? I was so right.

If you were going to get someone's soul, Call thought, it would be nice if you also got their superior penmanship.

Nothing is sweeter, but that which is scarce.

Don't have gold?' calls an antlered shopkeeper. 'Pay with a lock of hair, a year of your life, a dream you wish to never have again.

Isn't that sweet?' Hyacinthe says, the first words I've heard him speak. 'Riding your sister's horse into battle. Have you anything of your own, prince? Or just girls' castoffs and scraps?