Quotes About Value

If we were blind for one day each year, how we would enjoy the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Fearing to lose what you have is not the same as appreciation. You have to move a step beyond that.

Soul sells life for the price of heartache.

Instead of counting your days, make your days count.

I value it as a morsel of genuine history, a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

A horse is worth more than riches.

One rifle, one blanket, twenty bottles of hooch. Rifle broke. She said this last scornfully, as though disgusted at how low her maiden-value had been rated.

A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated since it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour.

Oh, I am not challenging your sincerity, Ernest continued. You are sincere. You preach what you believe. There lies your strength and your value—to the capitalist class.

Le persone d'eccezionale valore sono simili alle grandi aquile solitarie che volano molto in alto nell'azzurro, al disopra della terra e della sua superficiale meschinità.

He alone rated himself beyond diamonds and rubies

Whether you do or think you do, it's the same thing. You spend what you haven't got, and in return you get greater value from spending what you haven't got than I get from spending what I have got, and what I have sweated to get.

He alone rated himself beyond diamonds and rubies. Diamonds and rubies are gone, spread out on the deck to be washed away by a bucket of sea-water, and he does not even know that the diamonds and rubies are gone. He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss. Don't you see? And what have you to say?

Biliyor musunuz,' diye ekledi. 'Bay Butler'a ac?yorum. DoÄŸru dürüst harcayamayaca?? otuz bin dolar kazanmak için hayat?n? boÅŸa harcam??. Niye mi, çünkü art?k otuz bin dolar verse bile çocukken on sente alabileceÄŸi ÅŸeyleri alamaz, mesela ÅŸeker, f?st?k veya tiyatroda en üst balkondan bir bilet.

Nor did ever a miser prize his treasure as did I prize the knife.

One thing was certain: the Morses had not cared to have him for himself or for his work.  Therefore they could not want him now for himself or for his work, but for the fame that was his, because he was somebody amongst men, and—why not?—because he had a hundred thousand dollars or so.  That was the way bourgeois society valued a man, and who was he to expect it otherwise? 

Two hours of loose philosophizing will never tilt the scale against the worth of one sound belch.

Chocolate, like all other types of money, has no inherent value outside of a cultural context.

You have to remember life is short, but

learning is truly a value, growth for every employee is a real objective, mistakes aren't always fatal, and there are lots of people around whom you can reach out to for coaching and mentoring.

And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

There are many things wealth cannot buy, and most of those are enumerated by philosophers who have never woken wondering if this day would be their last.