Quotes About Value

My intention, of course, had been to wake up early and call Father Dominic to warn him about Heather. But intentions are only as good as the people who hold them, and I guess I must be worthless because I didn't wake up until my mother shook me awake, and by then it was 7:30, and my ride was leaving without me.

Absolute value: the distance that a given number is from zero on a number line . . . always a positive

Honestly, what good is owning a castle if the person you love doesn't want to share it with you?

Make new friends but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold.

Treat your parents with loving care for you will only know their value when you see their empty chair.

You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of it from the barons to the boot cleaners coming to you for his blood, and you are going to have to deal with it. Attolia smiled. You make him sound like more trouble than he is worth. No, said Eddis thoughtfully. Never more than he is worth.

I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.

You are treasure beyond any price.

I do believe that Akretenesh saw no differences between a woman who was a queen and one who was a seamstress, though he would recognize all the differences in the world between a prince and a farmer.

We have a saying in my country that a beautiful woman deserves love. (...) Ugly women do not? asked the queen as if genuinely curious.

In other words, when women acquire critical skills and starting weighing their options they soon wise up to the fact that they're not getting enough recompense for their labors. In trade union terms, you'd call it a production slowdown...

I am not sorry for a moment . It was worth every moment, every second we were together. I would not change it for an immortal lifetime

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

There are families whose greatness lies in their past, and in their legacies, Mrs. Schuyler answered. That is a quality much to be admired, for tradition is what binds us as a society. But there are some families, like some nations, whose greatness is a future development, and that quality, though harder to discern than the prestige of manor houses and coats of arms and titles of rank and office, is no less valuable, if, indeed, not more so.

Humans were not to be toyed with, they were to be respected.

All of me, every aspect of my being, is important. I count for something. I matter. My feelings can be trusted. My thinking is appropriate. I value my wants and needs. I do not deserve and will not tolerate abuse or constant mistreatment. I have rights, and it is my responsibility to assert these rights. The decisions I make and the way I conduct myself will reflect my high self-esteem.

Mary knows what's important, He said. Mary made the right decision.

Generosity is the value we practice. Nonattachment is a gift.

you don't fully appreciate what you've got until something threatens to take it away.

The real treasures of this world cannot be purchased with any sum of money. But they can be given away for free.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.

Elves - You can't live with them and there's just no resale value.

As a result of these high expectations surrounding a greatly valued ideal, health has become a salient metaphor for salvation, even for nonreligious Westerners.