Quotes About Value

Cuanto menos tiempo tienes, menos quieres arriesgar el que te queda

It's a crime, when you think about how little time we get, that a man should ever be bored. When you're lying on your deathbed, I expect you regret those weeks wasted more than your worst mistakes.

Dignity wasn't much help to the living, it was none to the dead.

But being right is of little value in war.

swear, the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing.

What is the point in prosperity, after all, if everyone has it?

What's the difference between biding it and wasting it?" Clover saw no need to open his eyes. "Results, woman. Results.

it is the fate of hope to end in disappointment, as it is the fate of light to end in darkness and life in death. They are still worth something while they last.

Is it gold?' asked the lad. 'Copper,' she lied, since gold is apt to turn unpleasant meetings into deadly ones.

One cannot despise a thing without acknowledging its importance.

Money is a different thing to every man, Bialoveld wrote, but always a good thing.

Buyers of anything are looking for value. They are looking for a way to solve problems or create opportunities. No matter what the buyer says, price is never the only consideration. Value always has and always will be the primary buying factor.

These tend to be in the areas of basic values like integrity, creating mutually beneficial relationships with customers and employees, and providing honest value. What I am saying is don't make assumptions about what will work tomorrow based on what worked yesterday, especially in the area of processes, procedures, strategies, and operations.

I don't know, maybe you'd be more interested in me if I were a book.

So much of what was best in life went unnoticed in the moments you had it.

I'd netted a bachelor's in English from Boston University, but it had done less for me, in strictly financial terms, than the eight-week course that earned me a commercial driver's license.

So much of what was best in life went unnoticed in the moments you had it. The

You're useful to me. Every day. Every hour. Anyone who knows how to love is useful to someone.

She wished she were not so aware of the vast gulf between what the men in her life thought she was worth and her actual value. She had, it seemed to her, always asked and expected too much and given too little. She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that would most appall those people and then do that until they had to run away as a matter of self-preservation.

The Incas were right to worship the sun, Father. God is fire. Combustion is the one inarguable blessing. A tree, oil, coal, a man, a civilization, a soul. They've all got to burn sometime. The warmth made by their passing may be the salvation of others. The ultimate value of the Bible, the Constitution, or any work of literature, really, is that they all burn very well, and for a while they keep back the cold.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good, no matter how much of a beating it takes.

Why is it so important for us to listen to girls? Because a girl's voice may be the most valuable and most threatened resource she has.

With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such diadems left.

Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other.