Quotes About Value

If people love you for your soul, your face doesn't matter and you don't have to be perfect.

For a gift that does not find balance and a service that is not returned are worth less than a curse.

Life is so quick that it's all played out at the gates of death, and the value of resolution is that it quickens life.

Though it would take a long time for him to understand the principle, it was that to be paid for one's joy is to steal.

For a time, the Hanseatics were well appreciated as honorable merchants who ensured quality and fought against unscrupulous practices. They were known as Easterlings because they came from the east, and this is the origin of the word sterling, which meant "of assured value.

At times soldiers were even paid in salt, which was the origin of the word salary and the expression "worth his salt" or "earning his salt." In fact, the Latin word sal became the French word solde, meaning pay, which is the origin of the word, soldier.

In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value.

For a time, the Hanseatics were well appreciated as honorable merchants who ensured quality and fought against unscrupulous practices. They were known as Easterlings because they came from the east, and this is the origin of the word sterling, which meant "of assured value." The

We are so achievement-oriented that we often surge right by the true value of relating to what's before us, because we think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

Having an honest friend—one before whom you can dump all your heart's pockets and still feel that you are worth something—is a form of wealth that will buy you nothing but will give you everything. And mysteriously and rightly, to find such a friend, we must be such a friend.

La diferencia entre lo trivial y lo importante depende de la persona que hace el trabajo.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Our lives and our deaths surely count equally, or we must abandon one-man-one-vote, dismantle democracy, and assign seven billion people an importance-of-life ranking from one to seven billion.

Books were not an expense; they were an investment.

Frances is a diamond, passed from filthy paw to paw but never diminished. The men who handle her can leave no mark because her worth is far above them. (page 361)

Frances is a diamond, passed from filthy paw to paw but never diminished. The men who handle her can leave no mark because her worth is far above them. Hard, helpless, buried. You can hear it in her voice and see it in her eyes, she is waiting for a strong and fearless miner to go way down and rescue her up to the surface where she can shine for all she's worth.

For me it is most often an immediate reaction; the more I look for something, the less chance there is for finding anything of value.

Humildad tiene que ver también con «humor». El humilde tiene humor. Se puede reír de sí mismo. Toma distancia de sí. Puede mirarse tranquilo a sí mismo porque se permite ser como es: un ser humano de la tierra y un ser humano del cielo, una persona con faltas y debilidades y, al mismo tiempo, digna de amor y valiosa.

Customers should understand that what they are paying for, in any restaurant situation, is not just what's on the plate—but everything that's not on the plate: all the bone, skin, fat, and waste product which the chef did pay for, by the pound.

O peixe é um negócio complicado. O snapper vermelho pode custar ao chefe apenas oito euros por quilo, mas esse valor inclui as espinhas, a cabeça, as escamas e tudo o mais que é cortado e deitado fora. Pronto, o preço real de cada filete limpo custou ao chefe mais do dobro daquela quantia e, assim, ele realmente prefere vendê-lo a deitá-lo no lixo. Se ainda não cheirar mal na segunda-feira à noite, você irá comê-lo.

People will continue to pay for quality. They will be less and less inclined, however, to pay for bullshit.

Treasure a handful of dirt from your home,      But love not ten thousand taels of foreign gold.

I must have been about twenty-one or twenty-two at the time, and held then many rather wild ideas on the subject of women: conceptions largely the result of having read a good deal without simultaneous opportunity to modify by personal experience the recorded judgment of others upon that matter: estimates often excellent in their conclusions if correctly interpreted, though requiring practical knowledge to be appreciated at their full value.