Quotes
Quotes about Value
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What sights of ugly death within mine eyes! Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks; A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scatt'red in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls, and in the holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep And mocked the dead bones that lay scatt'red by.
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.
Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of four feet.
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
