Quotes About Value

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.

Ever since Genesis decreed 'thorns and thistles' as a long-term punishment for our misbehaviour in the Garden of Eden, weeds have seemed to transcend value judgements, to be ubiquitous and self-evident, as if, like bacteria, they were a biological, not a cultural, category.

You can spend your money and spend your time. At the end of the day, you can look in your wallet and know how much money you have left. That's the difference between money and time.

We cannot love our customers so much, love we not their customers more.

Treat your time as if someone is paying for it. Someone is.

I've become leery of religious advocacy for laws which only value a 'life' until it's born.

Are you a consumer or producer?

This is a little dirty secret of mental health economics: if you're depressed, you don't think you're worth the cost of treatment. You feel guilty enough about being unproductive and unreliable.

It seems like the value you attribute to something, more than its inherent value, influences your expectations, and your expectations, to a great extent, influence the life you live.

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?

A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity

Life is not yours to take.

I once read that love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it's the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. I think marriage is like that. Like my father said, the things of greatest value are the things we fight for. And in the end, if we do it right, we value the stem far more than the blossom

Knowing your self-worth isn't something others can validate. You either believe it or you don't.

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

I've learned that the greatest threat to love is not circumstance but the absence of attentions. For we do not neglect others because we have ceased to love; rather we ceased to love others because we have neglected them. I've learned that each day is a miracle unearned. I've learned that while life is ephemeral-a vapor- LOVE is not. In short, I have learned what matters and what does not.

On the calendar, all days look the same, but they do not carry the same weight.

The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most for granted. Air. Water. Love. If you have someone to love, you are lucky. If they love you back, you're blessed. And if you waste the time you have to love them, you're a fool.

We don't appreciate the things that come easy to us as much as we do the things we have to work for. I think that's true for love as well.

Wasted dreams, I suppose." "I don't think there's such a thing," Justin said. "Dreams have value

It's a shame people don't have the advantage of knowing when their time's up..They would stop trading time for trinkets –

Never trade what you love for what's behind curtain B. Never.

He didn't understand that one person's love is better than a thousand people's approval.

All gold does not glitter.