Quotes About Value

It was strange, she thought, pedaling steadily, that it should require a holocaust to make her own life worth living.

I don't want money. What the hell's money good for? You can't drive it and you can't eat it and it won't even fix a flat.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Every bit of you is worthy of your loving.

I reflected that had he married for attraction alone he could have had me. Had he married for money alone, he could have had Miss Vincy. Instead he had chosen a compromise between the two and had ended up with Miss Charity Winthrop. I did not think he could have done worse for himself if he'd tried.

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

Wulfe had been as likely to hoard dried flowers as exquisite jewelry.

My car is fine," Jesse said cheerfully. "Dad, you and Mercy have got to take better care of your stuff. Do you think that money grows on trees?

But I know war. And every day I can hold it off is valuable to me, and to its victims.

Your importance is not in a title, it is in the excellence of your actions.

There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.

If the words or attitude disempower, disrespect, or devalue the other, then they are abusive.

Cradled in this community whose currency was relational ethics, my stock in myself soared. My value depended on the glorious intangibility, the eloquence invisibility, of my just being part of the collective—and in direct response I grew spacious and happy and gentle.

Protection involves caring about her emotions more than the content of what she says. You can disagree with the content, as long as you value her.

Your skill can never buy you love. It may win you admiration and envy, but never love. If that was what you were after, you have wasted your time.

It is an indisputable fact that the more expensive something is, the better it is.

Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!

Curiosity is a highly undervalued skill because of the value it makes other people feel.

When you say no firmly and with confidence, people end up putting more value on your yes.

What clients want more than anything is to know that we're more interested in helping them than we are in maintaining our revenue source.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

Of what earthly value is Christianity if it leaves no indelible mark on one's lifestyle? It is of no value (in this life) to be Christian if you do not think Christianly--if you do not have a Christian life view.

Sir,' said Stephen, 'I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints.

Una historia es como un fruto seco - dijo Vashet -. Un necio se la traga entera y se atraganta. Otro necio la tira creyendo que no tiene ningún valor. - Sonrió -. Pero una mujer sabia encuentra la manera de romper la cáscara y comerse el fruto que hay en el interior.