Quotes About Value

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

Every second is of infinite value.

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone-its value is incontestable.

A penny for your thought.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Nobody's sweetheart is ugly.

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

All wealth is the product of labor

The price of wisdom is above rubies.

Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.