Quotes About Value

Comprendan el valor del tiempo usándolo bien. Así la juventud será encantadora, la vejez traerá pocas lamentaciones y la vida será dichosa y hermosa

If friendship were a matter of bookkeeping -- so much joy in one column, so much sorrow in the other -- everything would cancel out and you would, it seems, be left with nothing. Yet there must be another factor in the equation, for somehow the joy outweighs the sorrow.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after – lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

Washington, unfazed, sent this screed to Hamilton, who replied that "it is long since I have learnt to hold popular opinion of no value."37

He valued money too highly to dispense it lightly and wanted to investigate all requests before acting upon them.

Senior countered that "the prestige of his going to Hot Springs for twenty-one days as our family physician Ã¢â'¬Â¦ might be worth a great deal more to him than this loss of patients.

For Rockefeller, it was dogma that prices should reflect true market values, not the buyer's ability to pay, and nothing upset him more than the notion that a rich man should pay a premium on his hard-earned wealth.

It would be equivalent to $500 million today.)

From Vanderbilt, Morgan had learned the trick of basing value not on current assets but on projected earnings.

When you is precious to God, you become important to Satan.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life.

On the fundamental dignity of the human person, there can be no relenting!

Nothing's worth anything unless somebody wants it.

Your worth depends on my blood that bought you, never on what you do.

There are those who would counter with the notion that women aren't shallow since we're appreciative of what a man

Thus was born an ideology: the belief in the inherent value of gold despite its relative uselessness in reality.

Yes you are pretty, and when you pictured perfect, you came damn close, but the part of you I like the most is inside.

Now we determine each other's worth by asking, 'What do you do?' If you say 'nothing', people move away from you as if you're a corpse.

When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue. The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke.

If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.

but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?

Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.

If I can attain Heaven for a pice, why should you be envious?

Pack at the price of a bull's life.