Quotes About Value

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

But he who loveliness withinHath found, all outward loathes,For he who color loves, and skin,Loves but their oldest clothes.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

They say everything in the world is good for something.

Of ancient race by birth, but nobler yetIn his own worth.

For you may palm upon us new for old: All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

Judi, a person's worth isn't measured by her utility. We're not tools. We're here to think. To feel. To be good to each other

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection.

You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.

You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.

I'm at the stage in life where I get a lot of pleasure out of finding a cheap stock.

Life is too short to read inferior books.

O reputation! dearer far than life.

Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure.

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .

The fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life.