Quotes About Value

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Safety isn't expensive, its priceless.

The thing that goes the farthest toward making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.

Good work requires of us an appreciation of the value of routine, ordinary, mundane rhythms of doing what needs to be done, each day and each week, thoroughly and with care.

Those millions of sales represented a loss in share value on the New York Exchange alone of some $10 billion. That was twice the amount of currency in circulation in the entire country at the time. Eventually, the total lost in the financial pandemic would be put at a staggering $50 billion—all stemming from a virus that proved fatal on October 29, 1929: the day the bubble burst.

The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of the Truth, but rather the pursuit of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectibility is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent, and proud.

Nicht die Wahrheit, in deren Besitz irgend ein Mensch ist oder zu sein vermeinet, sondern die aufrichtige Mühe, die er angewandt hat, hinter die Wahrheit zu kommen, macht den Wert des Menschen.

The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.

Natural, xingar a mãe de uma pessoa não vale nada, porque todo mundo vê logo que a gente não tem intenção de maltratar ninguém. Um ditério sem importância.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Time is the only true currency we have. Even if Warren Buffett and Bill Gates combined their billions, they couldn't buy an extra second of time.

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

Since the end is never told, We pay the teller off in gold, But he cannot be bought or sold.

Because here's what guys don't do if they can't live without you: They don't break up with you.

Don't waste the pretty

There are times when it's worth putting aside the endless myopic navel-gazing that occupies so much literature in order to look out at the universe itself and value it for what it is

I used to think that if you changed from … valuing one thing to valuing another, it was because you'd learnt something new, understood something better. And it's not like that at all. I just value what I'm stuck with. That's it, that's the whole story. People make a virtue out of necessity. They sanctify what they can't escape.

A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.

Still, in the larger sense, in a broader sense, it's better to have lived than left, right?

And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains

Jim Elliot summarized it well: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Trying to convince himself that as a four-year-old boy he might have been something worth keeping.

Always respect life. Then you'll value yours. The hard part isn't turning you into a killer. The hard part is keeping you human.

Every dollar has a story to tell," Vonn Carp in Dollarapalooza.