Quotes About Value

Someone who does not have any responsibility can feel very detached, 'Oh, I am doing nothing. I am free.' But that freedom has no value. If someone who is responsible for the whole of society, the whole kingdom can say, 'I am not doing anything' in spite of this responsible job; then that 'not doing' something is great. That is enlightenment.

Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest. For of two things which have alike ceased to be, the one is not better, the other worse—the one greater, the other less.

Christ is not valued at all unless He be valued above all.

Or you can look further and read into it a parable, an allegory maybe, a metaphor for how people and things were loved and discarded based upon their immediate value.

What is it we buy with this money we desire? Is it something valuable? Is it something lasting? Oh, why do we desire it? Miserable is the rest achieved that costs so dearly.

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

One loyal friend," Euripides reminds us, "is worth ten thousand relatives.

People's lives are often other than they seem to be on the surface. And sometimes, what's underneath and hidden is the best part of all, the part of real value.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Justification, after all, confers value on an activity from a perspective outside its performance. An activity that cannot be justified is an activity that refuses to regard itself as instrumental to some larger good. The humanities are their own good. There is nothing more to say, and anything that is said – even when it takes the form of Kronman's inspiring cadences – diminishes the object of its supposed praise.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

In addition, experiences that facilitate addiction offer people a sense of power or control, of security or calm, of intimacy or of being valued by others; on the other hand, such experiences succeed in blocking out sensations of pain, discomfort, or other negative sensations.

Tarihte bir baÅŸar?n?n ahlaki deÄŸeri asla pratik faydas?yla ölçülmez, insanl??a kal?c? bir zenginlik katanlar, insanl???n bilgisini çoÄŸalt?p yarat?c? gücünü artt?ranlard?r. syf-230

DeÄŸerli olan her zaman için gerçeÄŸin yar?s? deÄŸil, tamam?d?r.

ever since he discovered that all his millions could not bring him back his wife, he has learned to despise money.

Hiçbirimize tek bir nefeslik bir yaÅŸam dahi ikinci bir kez verilmeyecek.

nooit hebben wij (...) meer van de kunst gehouden dan in die jaren van chaos, omdat het verraad van het geld ons duidelijk maakte dat alleen het eeuwige in ons werkelijk standhield.

Es el asombro eterno que en cada rincón de la Tierra, siente todo hijo de la naturaleza ante los hijos de la cultura, para quienes un puñado de metal amarillo tiene más valía que todos los logros técnicos y espirituales.

before it became apparent how thin though highly valuable a layer of liberalism had been. With it conciliation disappeared from public political life, interests hit hard against interests, and the struggle began.

But after all, time is strong, and age has the curious power of devaluing all our feelings.

Es ist das ewige Staunen aller Naturkinder an allen Enden der Erde über die Kulturmenschen, denen eine Handvoll gelbes Metall kostbarer erscheint als alle geistigen und technischen Errungenschaften ihrer Kultur.