Quotes About Value

daredevil who likes to live on the edge may value risk-taking so highly as to underrate others whose prime value is nurturance or preservation—until, perhaps, an accident reveals the practical value and benefit of nursing!

I talked this matter over with Douglas more than once. He did not know French well; but he could understand it and he was a rarely good translator as his version of a Baudelaire sonnet shows. In any dispute as to the value of a word or phrase I should prefer his opinion to Oscar's. But Ross is doubtless right on this point. F.H.]

Free is never Worth it

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money.

Worth dying for. Worth killing for. Worth going to hell for.Amen.

Love is first of all a lesson in utility.

a truth our socetiy must not lose sight of and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every indvidual

And yet most people would be lost without the idea that life increases in value the more it resembles our own.

On the one hand our body is our temple, but on the other we despise it for being mere machinery. We've become accustomed to valuing mind over body. We feel nothing but contempt for the factors relating to our physical survival.

people don't buy two-inch drill bits; they buy two-inch holes.

This does not mean that the knowledge of the world, church history, theology, philosophy, and the Scriptures is without value. Such knowledge can be very useful.[105] But it is not central. Theological competence and a high-voltage intellect alone do not qualify a person to serve in God's house.

A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.

A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist.

Most people like hard work. Particularly when they are paying for it.

Innovations must not only be valuable, they must also be put to use by others in society.

Do not cast your pearls before swine.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

As far as the praise of knowledge is concerned, al-Askarî otherwise restricts himself to some of the more ordinary statements, such as the hadîth affi rming the Prophet's permission to use attery and show envy in connection with knowledge, or Alî's famous remark that a man's value consists in what he knows or does well.

Scholars who have to spend their time among ignoramuses, or, even worse, are under their control, are to be pitied. Knowledge, being more precious than pearls, must not be wasted upon the pigs who do not want it. This quotation of Matthew 7:6 is often repeated in adab works.