Quotes About Value

There were things worth keeping and things worth letting go of, and figuring out which was which wasn't that easy." -Jane

Like any collectable of any real value, it's priceless to the right owner" -Mr. Simmons

The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved

Love things that last

Throwing a work of art in the trash doesn't devalue the work of art. It only shows the lack of wisdom and judgement in the person who so carelessly tossed it aside. - Tara Johnson "All Through the Night

The basis for regarding certain ends as objectively valuable to an organism, as the kinds of things that it should seek, Rand reasons, rests in the struggle for life.

When a man and woman have sexual relations, who gets the most out of the deal? The man, or the woman? Since we live in a society full of tricks, the man thinks he gets more out of the encounter. But what do men really get out of it? The reality is that women have the potential to get more out of it than the man, especially if the man's seeds have accumulated a certain amount of value.

Throughout history, men have primarily been valued for their game, and women have primarily been valued for their physical attributes.

Cheap, people can be.

Never forget I am old," she said. "What does that mean, Mummy-ji?" "Didn't you know? Old is gold, na.

Quantity is a poor measure of the artistic merits of a collection,

Every object that brings us pleasure can also bring us suffering and anxiety. The more we value an object, the more we worry that it will be broken or taken from us. That is the nature of our mind and of our relationship with objects.

Love is always hard and always worth it.

Five thousand dollars for a baby doll?" Olive fanned herself with the magazine, lifting her peach-preserve hair. "I guess that's why God invented white folks.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

Sócrates dijo que para que un hombre sea de valor para el mundo, ha de tener educación.

Aristóteles: «El hombre juicioso no da su vida a la ligera, porque hay pocas cosas por las que merezca la pena morir. Sin embargo, en los momentos de grave crisis, al hombre juicioso no le importará perder la vida, porque hay circunstancias en las que no merece la pena vivir».

He still gazed at me, but I was confused. "It is not new that men confuse material prosperity with blessedness, and fail to value spiritual prosperity.

Holding out until you get your price to sell an investment is playing a fool's game.

To minimize risk, investors want funds with securities that act differently. If one stock or bond fund declines in value, we want other stocks or bonds in the portfolio to gain in value. If two funds hold securities that are the same (i.e., overlapped), diversification is reduced and risk increases.

Most of us have learned from experience that cheap goods and services are usually not as good as more expensive goods and services. Paying more will often buy a better house, a better car, better clothing, better airline seats, and better service. It is, therefore, understandable that many investors believe that paying more for expensive funds, expensive financial advice, and expensive investments will result in better results. The opposite is nearly always true.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. —Warren Buffett

Girls have always been told that their value is tied to their appearance; their accomplishments are always magnified if they're pretty and diminished if they're not. Even worse, some girls get the message that they can get through life relying on just their looks, and then they never develop their minds. [...] Being pretty is fundamentally a passive quality; even what you work at it, you're working at being passive.

Literacy encourages a culture to place more value on documentation and less on subjective experience.