Quotes About Value

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

What is at stake here for owners is not the amount of property as such, but its ability to draw an audience for whom it will be appropriately emblematic; that is, and audience who will see it as just compensation for the effort and skill used in acquiring it.

Waste is the antiproperty that becomes the possession of losers. It is the emblem of the untitled.

Respect was a big word in Linc's vocabulary. It meant being selective and paying attention to things that mattered and people who made differences. And respect for oneself meant being valuable enough to make sure they would notice you. That was the key to doing better than just getting by and surviving, which was something even the rats in the sewers under the city managed.

Money could never have originated as paper.

I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

A secret sold does not require a buyer's belief. It's a value unto itself.

Reputation is in itself only a farthing-candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

The question of common sense is always what is it good for? — a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

The illusion of time and space that has been introduced by those who want to commodities and monetize on the time and space of others.

Warriors must know that they are valued. Praise… praise from one's peers must be given when the moment is right. Without it, even the most steadfast man will eventually feel unvalued.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

Idolatría! Amar tanto a los objetos puede acabar destruyéndote. Lo que ocurre es que si cuidas algo lo suficiente cobra vida propia. ¿Y no es ese el propósito de los objetos, de las cosas hermosas, ponerte en contacto con una belleza más grande?

Time is the most valuable thing you have; be sure you spend it well

It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.

you can only value something if you've experienced it.

For many thousands of years people had looked at expensive heads of hair and thought of how much food and warmth they represented, so obviously it was a thought of no use at all, so why bother to have it? But thoughts of this sort did go ticking on, useless or not.

She wanted to be acknowledged, her predicament given its value.