Quotes About Value

I had been opposed to the practice of dedicating books; I had held that a book is addressed to any reader who proves worthy of it.

Sacrifice does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious

Only if one feels immensely important she had told him, can one feel truly light.

Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of 'Life' that makes the concept of 'Value' possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.

She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if…the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.

No gift is worth a damn, unless its the most precious thing you've got.

Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness...

Dagny, why is it that most women would never admit that, but you do?" "Because they're never sure that they ought to be wanted. I am." "I do admire self-confidence." "Self-confidence was only one part of what I said, Hank." "What's the whole?" "Confidence of my value—and yours.

Are you saying," he asked slowly, "that I rose in your estimation when you found that I wanted you?" "Of course." "That's not the reaction of most people to being wanted." "It isn't." "Most people feel that they rise in their own eyes, if others want them." "I feel that others live up to me, if they want me....

Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best.

No principle ever filled anybody's milk bottle

They liked working in a company that valued action and results.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

It is love alone that gives worth to all things.

You could not really bargain away your soul before it was established that you had one.

We most often understand the value of time only when we are in a position of having to regret its loss

In Europe pedigree might be all, "but it is a commodity that cannot be carried to a worse market than to that of America, where people do not enquire concerning a stranger, what is he? but what can he do?

A real tank now costs about a million dollars, while a hallucinated one amounts to less than one-hundredth of a cent per person, or centispecter per spectator. A destroyer costs a dime. Today you could fit the whole arsenal of the United States inside a single truck.

Sometimes a person who is valued, respected, even loved by all, cares most, in the innermost recess of his soul, about the opinion of someone who stands uninterested outside the circle of admirers, and who may be, in the eyes of the world, of no particular importance, a mediocrity.

It's like everything else. The price of Torahs is higher in Alaska.

You have an irreplaceable role in your relationships. No one can be to the people in you life who you can be to them. No one can offer what you can.

Gratis?» ha detto la mamma. È l'unica parola al mondo a cui non sa resistere. Da anni le teniamo nascosto che si muore gratis, perché sarebbe capace di suicidarsi all'istante.

Vidi che la banconota era tutta stropicciata, come l'assegno di Fefelli quel giorno a scuola, ma era una cosa diversa. I soldi si trasformano, a seconda delle mani che li accolgono, pensai. In certe mani diventano mattoni, in altre farfalle

A volte penso: è tempo perso questo aspettare? O è il tempo più necessario e prezioso, il prezzo che dobbiamo pagare all'affetto, alla cura, alla fratellanza?