Quotes About Value

And so you also see how no skill, no matter how lowly, is ever learned in vain.

Life is not salvage to be saved out of the world, but an investment to be used in the world.

Courage is a value contracted for two types of emotions; love and hate, so all actions carried out by these are also the most sincere.

Julian: She's very strong, you know. Much too good for you. Tom: I know. But she's a thousand times too good for you.

Nothing that's worth anything is ever simple. That's what makes it worth it

Recognition of his own value, by himself and others, was of paramount importance to the car-hire driver.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.

I call those men worldly, earthly, or coarse, whose hearts and minds are wholly fixed on this earth, that small part of the universe they are placed in ; who value and love nothing beyond it ; whose minds are as cramped as that narrow spot of ground they call their estate, of which the extent is measured, the acres are numbered, and the limits well known.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one which we take the least thought to acquire.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

Kings make men as they do pieces of money; they put what value they please on them, and we are compelled to receive them according to the value put on them, and not according to their true worth.

It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age we live in.

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit.

I don't want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

But life should not be traded for gold—a simple lesson, which I had had to learn twice.

As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough

You needn't trouble yourself. He's only a librarian.