Quotes about Value

The master was odd. I was kind and just to my dependants, but I excited in them a shrinking, half-contemptuous pity; for this class of men and women are but slightly determined in their estimate of others by general considerations, or even experience, of character. They judge of persons as they judge of coins, and value those who pass current at a high rate.

We see human heroism broken into units and say, this unit did little—might as well not have been. But in this way we might break up a great army into units; in this way we might break the sunlight into fragments, and think that this and the other might be cheaply parted with.

There is no one that we can afford to throw away.

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

The object of faith always determines its quality and worth.

Gazing at the grandeur of heavenly glory transforms our value system. In

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you're not.