Quotes about Value
Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not.
- Marcus Aurelius
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
- Cicero
We immortals aren't misers - we don't hoard! Such things are pointless.
- Margaret Atwood
A thing is valued, she says, only if it is rare and hard to get.
- Margaret Atwood
but love was undependable, it came and then it went; so it was good to have a money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you made sure you were fed enough and not damaged by too much. Also there were many who had neither love nor money value and having one of these things was better than having nothing.
- Margaret Atwood
Nothing should be carelessly thrown away, not even wine from sinful places. There was no such thing as garbage, trash, or dirt, only matter that hadn't been put to a proper use.
- Margaret Atwood
Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.
- Margaret Atwood
Free love," Aunt Beatrice said scornfully. "It's never free. There's always a price.
- Margaret Atwood
Single strand of pearls, wild, not cultured. (Worth it, she said: only the wild ones had souls.)
- Margaret Atwood
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.
- Bill Gates
The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
- Martin Luther
When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time
- Rick Warren