Quotes About Value

Life is more than just a bump in the road. All life is sacred.

As one historian has neatly put it: The futures market is a place where "men who don't own something are selling that something to men who don't really want it.

Do you believe your gentle birth will turn a bullet?" "Why, yes," Rhett said solemnly. "Hell yes! Gentle birth's got to be good for something!

We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

The bottom line on skills is this: A skill is designed to make the secrets of the best easily transferable. If you learn a skill, it will help you get a little better, but it will not cover for a lack of talent. Instead, as you build your strengths, skills will actually prove most valuable when they are combined with genuine talent.

Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

Thus no other object on earth is as valuable as the Bible, for nothing else can provide anything as essential or eternal.

If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is infinitely more precious than money because money can't buy time.

The greatest commodity to own is land. It is finite. God is not making any more of it.

QUESTIONS FOR TESTING THE VALUE OF A MODEL Are the driving factors likely to unfold this way? If they did, would the system react this way? What is driving the driving factors?

Pay Attention to What Is Important, Not Just What Is Quantifiable

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them. ... Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.

Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? And isn't the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Work hard, love hard, be generous, be thoughtful, be brave, and know the value of sharing a great story, especially if it makes you laugh.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

It is people who are important, not the masses.

I prize freedom of the mind above freedom of the body.

If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly, I'd be sorry. But I value things unpossessed. The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.

Which do you value more, life or honor? Honor,...because everyone must die, but honor lasts forever.

It's good to have things that you love. They keep you grounded, make you realise how much you've got to lose. It's good to love people. But if you don't have anyone you can truly give your heart to, then having something that means the world to you can often act as a good stand-in

I would rather have nothing than something that was only alright.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.