Quotes About Value

It is just as valuable to be censured by friends as it is splendid to be praised by enemies. We desire praise from those who do not know us, but from friends we want the truth.

It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.

L'essentiel est sans cesse menacé par l'insignifiant.

Who would dare to say that what we have destroyed was worth a hundred times more than what we had dreamt and ceaselessly transfigured in murmuring to the ruins?

But an absolute value is not proven by logic or metaphysical arguments; it is accepted, believed (even when not discussed), and hedged about with taboos to protect it.

To be resolutely " anti-modern " is not to be anti-Western. in any sense of the word; it means, on the contrary, making the only effort that can be of any value to save the West from its own confusion.

Een doel, hoe nietig ook, verschafte het leven zin en betekenis.

Time is measured in meaning

when he had still thought his experiences might have some value – that his life might amount to something – and which were gathering dust in a desk drawer.

So take good care of your time. Watch how you spend it, for nothing is more precious. In the twinkling of an eye, heaven can be won or lost.

TRY TO DEVELOP a deep conviction that the present human body has great potential and that you shall never waste even a single minute of its use. Not taking any essence of this precious human existence, but just wasting it, is almost like taking poison while being fully aware of the consequences of doing so. It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, while when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.

Neither date nor time is promised, so treasure each day like it's your last.

the value of the distinction which they obtain. Resolved, that the Faculty will refuse to confer a

Opinions, from experts, cost money.

that culture was like money, it comes easiest to those who need it least.

Freedom is too precious collateral for any fee. We

culture was like money, it comes easiest to those who need it least.

It is undoubtedly rare for a man not to soon grow tired of a woman, but it is impossible to maintain that everything rare is undesirable.

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love." Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.

avaro hasta el extremo de que si en vez de nacer hombre hubiera nacido reloj, por no dar no habría dado ni las horas,

The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, courage -- they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.'

Investors who followed a broadly diversified asset allocation that included a total market fund and a small value index fund would have faired very well during the past decade.

The point on Figure 6-8 that is most interesting is a portfolio representing 70 percent in the broad market and 30 percent in the small value index. Over a 30-year period, a mix of 70 percent in the total market and 30 percent in the small-cap value index would have increased U.S. equity returns by 2.0 percent with very little increase in observed portfolio risk. Figure