Quotes About Value

You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

l'altezza dei monti non si misura con gli strumenti dei cartografi, come il valore delle persone non da ciò che fanno o sembrano, ma da ciò che sono.

Life's lessons come from unexpected places. We cannot afford to allow prejudices to shut out God's blessings. Being equal is based on seeing equal. It is seated in each individual's willingness to claim their own equality despite all evidence to the contrary and all talk by others who dare to question their value.

Land?' Froi whispered. 'You're giving them land? I'm not worth the valley.' 'You're worth a kingdom,' Finnikin said, turning back to the crowd.

A kiss is the prize?' he asked sadly. 'Even more than giving me the rest of you? It should be the other way round, Princess. In the real world, it's called courting. You let a lad kiss you and then you offer him more.' 'Let me tell you something, Olivier,' she said with tears of sorrow in her eyes, 'this is my real world.

If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.

What is it? A prize or something? No. It's not a prize and I'm not a prize. But it's mine. It belongs to me and I can only give it away once, and I want to be so sure when it happens. I don't want to say that the first time for me was bad or it didn't mean a thing.

If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others.

Vale más una persona cuando alguien sufre por ella?

Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

never put you first again. And for that, I'm truly sorry. You deserve to be put above all others with me, all the time.

When I was a child, I believed that what I want mattered so little that it wasn't even worth me discovering what it might be.

one man's trash is another man's treasure.

Time does not care how precious it is, how hard you are working not to squander it. Time passes.

and "good" doesn't mean he's worthy of you , does it ?

I have realized that for those who live in the West, freedom is so often something they take for granted. It has always been there for them. It is their unnoticed, unrecognized, constant companion and friend. But for those of us who come from countries like Sudan, freedom is wonderful and precious.

that inconsistent of me? No—of course we must regret what we lose, but that does not mean that what we gain is worthless.

Because social decisions are about more than just calculations, problems will always ensue if we use data alone to make decisions that involve social and value judgments.

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold. - Coloured Money