Quotes About Value

The good works of believers are not meritorious in the strict sense of the word; that is, they do not have the inherent value which naturally carries with it a just claim to a reward. If God does reward their good works, it is not because He is under obligation to them, but only because He has graciously promised to attach a reward to works that meet with His approval.

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.

A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing

Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.

Há palavras que são pronunciadas com a simples intenção de agir sobre os outros homens e de produzir algum efeito: o que sucede também quando se escreve. Elas não têm valor: as únicas palavras que contam são as pronunciadas tendo em vista a verdade e não o resultado.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game—it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices. Your dreams won't always come true, but you'll never know if you don't try. Either way, you will always discover so much of value along the way because you'll always run into problems—or as I call them, challenges.

For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.

Clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

The only way to know how much you love a thing is to see it in peril of being lost.

We discovered that safety and security are commodities you can sell in return for excitement but you can never buy them back.

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

Do you know what I've learned, after three decades of death?" Gamache asked, leaning toward the agent and lowering his voice. Despite himself, the agent leaned forward. "I've learned how precious life is.

Things sometimes fell apart unexpectedly. It was not necessarily a reflection of how much they were valued.

but you can never say it too often. You can never let someone know too often that they're precious, that they're missed.

It's vital to hear your own language, to see it written, to see it valued.

He knew in his heart that anything that offered such peace had great value.

You can never let someone know too often that they're precious.

These are young people, Madame Gamache. They're gifted, and many are fragile, having been marginalized most of their lives for being creative. We live in a society that doesn't value being different. When they come here, to art college, it's probably the first time in their lives they feel they belong. Safe. Not just valued, but precious.

I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.