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Quotes About Value

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
~ Cynthia Lord
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
~ Virginia Woolf
There is unpanned gold in every soul you run into, no matter what walk of life they are from.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.
~ Thandie Newton
Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
~ Charles Bukowski
There's some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.
~ Dave Grohl
Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing.
~ Haddon W. Robinson
One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.
~ Lee Van Cleef
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.
~ John Piper
The most valuable things in life can't be bought with money.
~ Phillipe Nover
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
~ Stendhal
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
~ John Ruskin
Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.
~ Benjamin Bratt
Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
~ Russell Baker
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.
~ Denis Waitley
I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.
~ Amory Lovins
The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.
~ Edith Schaeffer