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Quotes About Value

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.
~ Lionel Shriver
Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Every child's life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
~ Jimmy Carter
It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.
~ Conn Iggulden, Conqueror
A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.
~ Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?
~ Jesus Christ, Matthew 16:26
The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence
~ Jewel
Chairman Mao taught us that "inner beauty is much more valuable than outward appearance." How
~ Ji-li Jiang
Cheap jewelry, however, is worse than no jewelry at all, and there are very few things in life than are worse than no jewelry at all.
~ Jill Conner Browne
Cheap jewelry, however, is worse than no jewelry at all, and there are very few things in life that are worse than no jewelry at all.
~ Jill Conner Browne
Gold nugget jewelry is bad.
~ Jill Conner Browne
If you're struggling to get into big companies, you probably have a weak value proposition. Pure and simple.
~ Jill Konrath
In 1885, an American economist tried to reckon the extraordinary transformation wrought by what was now 200,000 miles of railroad, more than in all of Europe. It was possible to move one ton of freight one mile for less than seven-tenths of one cent, "a sum so small," he wrote, "that outside of China it would be difficult to find a coin of equivalent value to give a boy as a reward for carrying an ounce package across a street.
~ Jill Lepore
Karl Marx began making predictions about the consequences of capitalism. He saw in the increase in the production of goods a decrease in the value of labor and a widening inequality between the rich and the poor.
~ Jill Lepore
A god in the hand is worth two on Olympus.
~ Jillian Hunter
Love makes the world go 'round but I'm pretty sure money has to do with it, too.
~ Jim Benton
Don't ever think $7,000 isn't a lot of money in baseball. I've had huge arguments over a lot less.
~ Jim Bouton
We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat.
~ Jim Cantalupo
I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'
~ Jim Carrey
The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.
~ Jim Carrey
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
~ Jim Elliot
The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.
~ Jim George
Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.
~ Jim George