Quotes About Value

They defined one benefit of a higher speed limit as a quicker commute to and from work, calculated the economic benefit of the time saved (valued at an average wage of $20 an hour) and divided the savings by the number of additional deaths. They discovered that, for the convenience of driving faster, Americans were effectively valuing human life at the rate of $1.54 million per life. That was the economic gain, per fatality, of driving ten miles an hour faster.15

It is not my doing that the market prizes the talents I have, or that I possess those talents in the first place.

We can learn much by valuing the contributions of children and seeing their spiritual growth and development not only in terms of their future development but also in what they can also contribute now. Often, children endorse attitudes and insights that we lose as we grow in discipleship.

Because there's no such thing as a meaningless sacrifice, Mr. Hill. Because any positive act, no matter how hopeless or insignificant, is ultimately worthwhile.

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

What will matter is not your success but your significance....

Es fragt sich, warum die moderne bildende Kunst immer noch in den Feuilletons der Zeitungen behandelt wird und nicht gleich im Wirtschaftsteil.

Life was short, love was rare, and time.time was easy to waste.

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Time is our greatest asset, learn to spend it wisely.

What those who were contemptuous of sports misunderstood was not merely that a middle-class sports fan might revere football to the same degree that an inveterate theatergoer revered Shakespeare, but that he might do so for many of the same reasons.

Persuading a given rando is of virtually zero value.

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

The words yesterday and tomorrow might have been excised from their vocabulary: for yesterday had entertained nothing that was worth today's speech, and tomorrow could promise no change from today.

If there was an exit interview on the hour of our death I would like to be asked the question, "Was it worth it?" To which my response would be, "Yes, emphatically yes...but just barely.

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

Love without freewill is semantics holding no intrinsic value.

Only when you bring value to others, will you bring value to yourself.

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silver coins had gone from being a convenient way to carry a valuable metal to a symbol in their own right. Coins were value you could carry about, which other people recognized the same way you did. They didn't need to be sheltered and fed like cattle, or ploughed and reaped like fields, and best of all they didn't die; their value persisted. They could be buried in times of trouble and dug up to spend later.

Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.

The value of a secret depends upon whom you're trying to keep it from.

Es ist mir egal, wie viel jemand auf der Bank hat - solange er kein Kind hat, besitzt er nichts von Wert.