Quotes About Value

Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.

Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything. . . .

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

Your integrity is more precious than your life.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

Life is not yours to take.

I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.

A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.

... what counts in life usually cannot be counted.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.

When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten.

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.

Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone.

We are disappointed at the decision. The president remains fully committed to building a culture of life ... that is built on valuing life at all stages.

Is the life you seek to take worth the one you could one day create? (Savitar)

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.