Quotes About Value

It's impossible to repay something that has no price. Some say everything in the world–everything, with no exception–has a price. It's not true. There are things with no price, things that are priceless. But you realise it belatedly: when you lose them, you lose them forever and nothing can get them back for you. I have lost many such things. Which is why I can't help you today.

Don't mock me, Witcher. The matter is becoming serious. It's becoming ever less clear what this is all about, and when no one knows what something's about it's sure to be all about money.

It was as you said: what you used to be means more to people than what you are.

I consider gazing into the abyss utter foolishness. There are many things in the world much more worth gazing into. Dandelion, Half a Century of Poetry

Tiga är guld, sägs det. Kanske det. Vet inte om det är så mycket värt. I alla fall har det sitt pris. Det kostar att tiga.

I need this conversation. They say silence is golden. Maybe it is, although I'm not sure it's worth that much. It has its price certainly; you have to pay for it.

And to me, as I hum to myself, a duke's worth a jester. Before God we are all equally wise–and equally foolish.

Some say everything in the world—everything, with no exception—has a price. It's not true. There are things with no price, things that are priceless. But you realise it belatedly: when you lose them, you lose them forever and nothing can get them back for you.

Ma ci sono cose... che non si possono ottenere neppure con la magia. E ci sono doni che non si possono ricevere se non si è in grado di ricambiare... con qualcosa di altrettanto prezioso. In caso contrario, un tale dono scivola tra le dita, si scioglie come una scheggia di ghiaccio stretta in mano. Rimane solo il rimpianto, un sentimento di perdita e di torto subito...

But you did well to turn cash into these trinkets. The oren is weak and the cost of stones in Wyzim isn't high; it's too near to the dwarves' mines in Mahakam. If you sell those in Novigrad, you'll get at least five hundred Novigrad crowns, and the crown, at present, stands at six and a half orens and is going up.

living in it, it would be a drop of fresh water in the salt sea. In other words, a wasted effort. Thus, I decided to do specific good; good which would not go to waste. I'm good to myself and my immediate circle.

In tutto il mondo l'onore è sceso di prezzo, perché al giorno d'oggi è una merce difficile da vendere

Come su tutte le lame di Viroleda, vi è inciso: 'Non sguainarla senza ragione, non rinfoderarla senza onore'. Ah! A Viroleda continuano a incidere questa iscrizione. Ma in tutto il mondo queste lame finiscono in mano a farabutti e a sciocchi. In tutto il mondo l'onore è sceso di prezzo, perché al giorno d'oggi è una merce difficile da vendere...

Peace talks are a market. A country fair. So that some people can be bought, others must be sold. Thus the world runs its course. The point is not to pay too high a price . . .' 'And not to sell oneself too cheaply,' finished the elf, without raising his head.

There are things with no price, things that are priceless. But you realise it belatedly: when you lose them, you lose them forever and nothing can get them back for you. I have lost many such things.

Vale la pena pagare il piacere col dolore.

I need this conversation. They say silence is golden. Maybe it is, although I'm not sure it's worth that much. It has its price certainly; you have to pay for it.

The degree to which you will ever be financially compensated is inexorably linked to the obvious greater value (OGV) that you create for someone else.

Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.

adding value to people's lives beyond their traditional thoughts about our business

Learning's purest form is realized by the individual who continues a quest beyond the classroom, fueled by a passion to discern wisdom. Wisdom — genuine truth — holds the key to refining one's thinking. One seed, carefully tended, contains within it the power to change the world, for that single seed can yield an uncountable and ever-increasing number of seeds just as valuable

And tha's where you'd be dead wrong!" Mae Mae said as she pointed her finger. "Everybody -- every single body -- makes a difference! But there is a choice that determines what kinda difference you will make. Most folks don't see how important they are... how much they matter to all of us. So they never choose to do somethin' special wif their lives. And not makin' a choice? That is a choice ... a lost one.

Bottom of the pool: if you want folks to choose you—each and every time—then the greater value you have created had better be obvious.

Anne, it's not the color of the balloon that is important. It's what's inside that makes all the difference.