Quotes About Value

Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.

My salary for 'Splash' was $350,000. I got about $800,000 for 'Summer Rental.' So, yes, I thought, 'Well, here's a chance to get some furniture for the house and some clothes for the kids.'

I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.

I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.

I wish when I was 15 that I realized my voice was important and that even my thoughts and my opinions had value. Had I known, I probably would've spoken up more. I probably would've found my activism sooner and become a writer sooner.

I like to be spoken about only when I am doing meaningful work.

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.

What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.

I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.

Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

It is as true as that night follows day, that the man who does more than he is paid for, and does it in a pleasant mental attitude, sooner or later is paid for more than he does.

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.