Quotes about Value

The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.

Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.

A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about.

The codfish lays ten thousands eggs, The homely hen lays one. The codfish never cackles To tell you what she's done. And so we scorn the codfish, While the humble hen we prize, Which only goes to show you That it pays to advertise.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways to recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human body, to indicate which men are worthless.

But my pain's a fair price, to take away your smile.

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

They're a rotten lot, I shouted, across the lawn. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it--on the inside.

Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

Wylie: If you don't like advice, why do you pay me? Stahr: That's a question of merchandise. I'm a merchant. I want to buy what's in your mind.