Quotes About Value

To know you're a comfortable and trusted element in someones life is a compliment. But why does it have to come with being taken for granted?

Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.

I'm a limited edition, you break me there's is no replacing me. Just like my heart, you break it there's no turning back to me my trust takes forever to repair.

Don't be mad when someone else starts to appreciate the person you took for granted. What you won't do, someone else will.

At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person.

The best parts of you will only be appreciated by the one who deserves you.

After all," I said to myself, "possibly the pleasure that its author has found in writing it is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; it may be only an accessory, one that is often to be found superadded to that value, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written yawning.

Just as it is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent man is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by a nobleman but by an oaf that a man of fashion is afraid of finding his social value underrated. Three-quarters of the mental ingenuity and the mendacious boasting squandered ever since the world began by people who are only cheapened thereby, have been aimed at inferiors.

je m'en croyais la possession entièrement assurée, que j'avais négligé d'en calculer la valeur, ce qui faisait qu'il me paraissait forcément inférieur à des plaisirs, si petits qu'ils fussent, mais que, cherchant à les imaginer, j'évaluais.

timpul meu nu-i chiar atît de pre?ios; cel care l-a f?cut, nu ni l-a vîndut.

La vera terra dei barbari non è quella che non ha mai conosciuto l'arte, ma quella che, disseminata di capolavori, non sa né apprezzarli né conservarli.

when I sensed that my life could be one of fulfillment, and should therefore have seen it as having increased in value, that I felt liberated from the anxieties it had hitherto inspired in me, and was prepared to commit it without hesitation to the unsure hands of chance.

For when it is in the hope of making a priceless discovery that we desire to receive certain impressions from nature or from works of art, we have qualms lest our soul imbibe inferior impressions which might lead us to form a false estimate of the value of Beauty.

putting adroitly provocative questions to casual witnesses, bribing servants, listening at doors, seemed to him now to be precisely on a level with the deciphering of manuscripts, the weighing of evidence, the interpretation of old monuments—so many different methods of scientific investigation with a genuine intellectual value and legitimately employable in the search for truth.

We are delighted when a Minister awards us a decoration, even when we have no claim to be thus honoured, but if he follows this up by awarding the same distinction to others who occupy a position similar to our own, we feel inclined to keep him, if we can, from so foolishly cheapening the mark of esteem which he has bestowed upon us.

They talk about vandalism, about the destruction of statues, but is not the destruction of so many wonderful young men who were polychrome statues of incomparable beauty also vandalism? Is not a city in which there are no more beautiful men like a city in which all the statuary has been destroyed?

Value yourself. Without internal resources, you have nothing.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust ' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

Porque donde esté vuestro tesoro, allí estará también vuestro corazón»

Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity. We find ourselves in a river. Which of the things around us should we value when none of them can offer a firm foothold? Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it's gone.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

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