Quotes About Value

Siento perderte, y quiero que sepas que no te tendría más cariño si fueras hijo mío. Pero, compréndelo, si se pierde un hijo, siempre es posible tener otro; en cambio, sólo existe un halcón maltés.

To have done work which is widely recognized, to have gained the sincere esteem of many and the real love of even a few, surely these are sufficient reasons to look on life as well worth the living.

Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

It means that money is ephemeral, moving from person to person," Hamood said. "It's a tool. Don't let it get into your heart or your soul." Mokhtar spent a year with Hamood

For something so important in our lives, friendship is woefully unexamined and under-studied. I think we deserve better. If we value friendship as much as we say we do, then let's get serious. Think of how much more genuine and authentic our friendships could be," she said, "if we just apply the right metrics to them.

Even a four-dollar cup was miraculous, given how many people were involved, and how much individual human attention and expertise was lavished on the beans dissolved in that four-dollar cup. So much human attention and expertise, in fact, that even at four dollars a cup, chances were some person—or many people, or hundreds of people—along the line were being taken, underpaid, exploited.

Have we wasted precious space dust on you?

Rule #72: Never depend upon luck, but don't ignore how really valuable it is.

Interestingly, one of the biggest problems with most people's personal management systems is that they blend a few actionable things with a large amount of data and material that has value but no action attached.

Healthy skepticism is often the best way to glean the value of what's being presented—challenge it; prove it wrong, if you can. That creates engagement, which is the key to understanding.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. —CHARLES DARWIN

The value of a future goal is the present change it fosters.

Your best investment is yourself. There is nothing that compares to it.

If you think you are being underpaid, underappreciated, and underdeveloped in your current job, then you are being hurt as a human being--and that is unacceptable.

The bottom line is that you and your partner are trading precious time in your life for this income. To me—and hopefully to you—that makes it critically important to ensure that you don't waste what you earn, but rather that you manage it efficiently and intelligently.

The narcissist could not feel empathy toward others. Which meant that the lives of others held no value to a narcissist. Killing could even be like a hit of fentanyl: instant euphoria from the domination and destruction of another. That was why virtually every serial murderer was also a narcissist.

However, Pine knew that narcissism was probably one of the most dangerous traits someone could possess for one critical reason: The narcissist could not feel empathy toward others. Which meant that the lives of others held no value to a narcissist. Killing could even be like a hit of fentanyl: instant euphoria from the domination and destruction of another.

were rabid, foaming bats blindly cleaving the air around his head. And it seemed that every few steps he would run straight into a twister of mosquitoes. Though he had been paid a large amount of cash up front, he was seriously considering increasing his daily fee on this one.

Free speech is not really free if it costs you all that you have.

have put up a bond of five hundred dollars—significant

Money's not everything." "It is if you never had much of it.

Where is it written that one should only care about big things?

All sooners know life is something you just borrow for a while. Each person must choose how to spend it.

We have earned our peace. It is, by now, more precious than honor, or even pity.