Quotes About Value

Waste of time is waste of time for everyone.

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Our time is like our money; when we change a guinea the shillings escape as things of small account; when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eyes.

My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

I don't know why you are better and more beautiful than anybody else.

We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.

The first principle of self-love is that you are not for sale.

If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

Love is a treasure for which we can never pay. The only way we keep it is to give it away.

I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

Whenever I buy a painting, someone invariably says, "Oh, what a great investment." And I hate that reaction. To me, it's a matter of love and not an exchange of equity.

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.

Fine. You don't want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

For love is mor than gold or gret richesse; Gold faileth ofte; love wol abyde.

Talk is cheep. Love is priceless.

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.

You love only those who deserve it.

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

You always think in terms of customer benefit. You always think, "How could I really benefit people at such a high level that they would love to buy my product or service and recommend it to others?"