Quotes About Value

True friendship costs more than love.

Your real friend recognizes your uniqueness and appreciates your value.

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.

Love, I have always found, is most intense when its object is unworthy of it.

What are living beings, compared to the enduring intensity of mere things?

So, I begin each day with a gesture of cynicism, and close it with a gesture of faith; or, if you prefer, begin it by reminding myself that, for me at least, goals and objectives are without value, and close it by demonstrating that the fact is irrelevant. A gesture of temporality, a gesture of eternity. It is in the tension between these two gestures that I have lived my adult life.

My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. That is to say, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill; but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

no man with any sense should marry the girl to whom he loses his virginity. It's like learning to drive in some clapped-out old banger and then holding on to it for the rest of your life when you've developed the skill to handle a BMW in rush-hour traffic on a busy Autobahn.

Maude's way of dealing with Charles was to treat him like an ottoman, of no use to anyone but worth having around

NEED SHAME BINDS When these needs are neglected, children are given the message that their needs are not important, and they lose a sense of their own personal value. They are not worth someone being there for them. They get the feeling they do not matter. As their needs are chronically rejected, children stop believing they have the right to depend on anyone.

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

I'm an economical soul, and if I'm going to be hanged I want a good stake for my neck.

Then said Good-Will, Alas, poor Pliable! Is the celestial glory of so little value to him that he considers it unworthy of his hazarding a few difficulties to obtain it? Christian

En segundo lugar, debes aborrecer su empeño por hacer que la cruz te resulte odiosa, porque has de preferirla 'antes que los tesoros en Egipto'. Además, el Rey de Gloria te había dicho que 'todo el que quiera salvar su vida, la perderá', y 'Si alguno viene a mí, y no aborrece a su padre, y madre, y mujer, e hijos, y hermanos, y hermanas, y aun también su propia vida, no puede ser mi discípulo'.

Si el mundo, al cual Dios da luz, es considerado una cosa de valor por el hombre, ¿qué será el cielo, el cual Dios elogia?

Alas, poor man! is the heavenly glory of so little worth with him, that he counteth it not worth running the risk of a few difficulties to obtain it?

All you leave behind isn't worthy to be compared with the tiniest portion of that which I am seeking to enjoy.

still answering, as fast as the destroyer said, Sell Him; I will not, I will not, I will not, I will not; no, not for thousands, thousands, thousands of worlds: thus reckoning, lest I should, in the midst of these assaults, set too low a value on Him;

Your heart may tell you one thing, but it is the Word of God that must bear witness in this matter; any other testimony is of no value.

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

By almost every account he's a fine young man. I'm simply trying to figure out why I should care that he's three centimeters taller than he was in May.

A minute of thought is worth more than an hour of talk.

To add value to others, one must first value others.