Quotes about Value

we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

G. K. Chesterton said that his goal in life was to take nothing for granted—not a sunrise, not a smile, not a flower, nothing. That is a truly wonderful approach to life. Don't take anything for granted. Truly appreciate every minute that you have to live. My near-death experience has helped me be better at that. If I hadn't almost died, I wouldn't have figured out how to live.

Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.

The first time I ever saw St. Louis, I could have bought it for six million dollars, and it was the mistake of my life that I did not do it.

Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.