Quotes About Value

why shouldn't something I have always known be the very best there is.

The room was the poem, the day I was in. Oh Christ. What writes my poem is the second ring, inner or outer. Poetry is just the performance of it. These little things, whether I write them or not. That's the score. The thing of great value is you. Where you are, glowing and fading, while you live.

Here's the thing about time: If you can't make the most out of any given moment, then you don't deserve a single extra second.

Reason tells the soul how mistaken it is in thinking that all these earthly things are of the slightest value by comparison with what it is seeking. A little recollection reminds it that all these things come to an end. And faith instructs it in what the soul must do to find satisfaction. . . .

they understand what you think is its value, you can let them make up their own mind.

The idea of a persona goes against North American culture's admiration of openness and authenticity. Europeans have a far better grasp of the value of not saying everything that one is thinking. Yet

BOUNDARIES The extreme nature of everything I've experienced as a mother has also taught me the need for boundaries. I have learned to value my own limited energy and resources, and so I will ask my children to help me around the house. If they choose not to help, they will lose some valued object or activity.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

It's a typical Western bias. You think a tool is more important than a dream because a tool can be measured and a dream cannot.

Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal.

He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.

Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Whatever period of life we are in is good only to the extent that we make use of it, that we live it to the hilt, that we continue to develop and understand what it has to offer us and what we have to offer it. The rewards for each age are different in kind, but they are not necessarily different in value or in satisfaction.

unless time is good for something it is good for nothing.

being acquisitive on a large scale, cannot have value if it is bought at the expense of others.

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.

Maturity means, too, an ability to take criticism and evaluate it. When it is not of value, when it is not constructive, but destructive, one can forget it. But when it is constructive one must accept it and try to profit, even though hurt by it. Perhaps you were hurt because a certain person pointed out a fault and you did not want that person to think you had a fault. But, if you are mature enough, you will accept the criticism of those you love and who love you and learn from it.

The truth is, of course, that there is a danger of being unaware of those persons and things nearest and most accustomed to us. It is not necessarily true that familiarity breeds contempt, but it does tend to make the familiar something that is taken for granted.

Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.