Quotes About Value

A large tree, crooked and full of holes, survives for centuries without being cut down, because nothing could possibly be made out of it. This example should raise the spirits of people like us. Everyone knows the profit to be reaped from the useful, but nobody knows the benefit to be gained from the useless.

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you want jewels! It will be time enough for jewels, my dear, twenty years hence, when your beauty begins to want repairs.

Both wit and understanding are trifles, without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without an heart?

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

No greater satisfaction exists now than a paragraph well written in honor of something you value.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!

The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right — it holds my golden time!

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Il nous faut remplacer les mourants, et les mourants savent qu'ils ne valent que pour ce qu'ils ont transmis.

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.

Teachers of old went to these extremes in revering the transmission of Dharma through the right masters. This means nothing other than valuing the Dharma more than anything else. In this sense, the question to be settled first of all for anyone is to select the right teacher who has clearly inherited Dharma through authentic masters.

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work