Quotes About Value

Don't take things too seriously. I would never de-value the importance of your business; but it's not worth sacrificing your life for.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

Life is short, no use wasting it with bad people.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.

"They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be an unclean thing. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them in the day of the Lord's wrath…"

When I looked into your eyes the last time, I found priceless jewels. Love flowed through and all I saw was a reflection of my face. I know that even for a million dollars, I would never trade this relationship.

To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.

Too many people what they are not and undervalue what they are.

It's not just about being better. It's about being different. You need to give people a reason to choose your business.

A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.

Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary.

"Some people are worth melting for."

Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Age isn't important until you run out of it.

There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.