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Quotes About Value

Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing. Ciro
~ Adriana Trigiani
I) realize that maybe my daughter did miss out on a big family life as an only child, but what she got instead was just as valuable. How many girls have an honorary aunt like Iva Lou? Sometimes what we don't get in this life makes way for something even better.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Fall in love with a plain girl. Plain girls never turn bitter. They appreciate their portion, no matter how meager A small pearl is enough. They never long for the diamond. Beautiful girls have high expectations. You bring them daisies, and they want roses. You buy them a hat, ad they want the matching coat. It's a well so deep you cannot fill it. I know. I've tried.
~ Adriana Trigiani
He said a man should always have to work hard to win a woman's heart, because when he gets it, it's worth it, and he'll never take it for granted.
~ Adriana Trigiani
You cannot buy time when it has been stolen from you.
~ Adriana Trigiani
For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what's right. Everyone's prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no sorrow really eats their hearts, or they can pretend to join another person's happiness forcing their faces into smiling masks. But a good man discerns true character— he's not fooled by eyes feigning loyalty, favouring him with watered-down respect.
~ Aeschylus
A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.
~ Aeschylus
But concern not thou thyself vainly with matters that are of no advantage.
~ Aeschylus
All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
~ Aesop
What is most truly valuable is often underrated.
~ Aesop
Precious things are for those that can prize them.
~ Aesop
The value is in the worth, not in the number.
~ Aesop
Hati-hati jangan sampai kehilangan milikmu yang berharga gara-gara ingin menangkap bayangan.
~ Aesop
Fair weather friends are not worth much.
~ Aesop
We tend to underestimate the small things about ourselves that are often our most valuable attributes.
~ Aesop
Wealth unused might as well not exist.
~ Aesop
Utility is most men's test of worth.
~ Aesop
Wealth not used is of no value at all.
~ Aesop
She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes, he took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she'd put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .
~ Ahdaf Soueif
But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
~ Ajahn Chah
If we see everything as uncertain, then their I value fades away.
~ Ajahn Chah
Quality is a nice thing to have, but brands are not built by quality alone.
~ Al Ries
The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.
~ Alain de Botton
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.
~ Alain de Botton