One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.
—Agatha Christie (1890–1976) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
—Karl Marx (1818–1883) German Philosopher, Economist
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don’t believe in the good old words because we don’t believe in good old values anymore. And that’s why the world is sick.
—Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese Author, Philologist
You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American Head of State
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
People should know what you stand for. They should also know what you won’t stand for.
—Unknown
If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues.
—Les Brown
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
—B. C. Forbes (1880–1954) Scottish-born American Journalist, Publisher
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
—Bruce Lee (1940–73) American Martial Artist, Actor, Philosopher
Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.
—Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
—Malcolm X (1925–65) American Civil Rights Leader
Expenditures rise to meet income.
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–93) British Historian, Author
Value is what people are willing to pay for it.
—John Naisbitt American Trend Analyst
We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it’s all about.
—Joseph Campbell (1904–87) American Author, Mythologist
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American Aviator, Author
Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
—Vince Lombardi, Jr. (1913–70) American Football Player, Coach
The gods sell all things at a fair price.
—Common Proverb
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
—Denis Waitley (b.1933) American Motivational Speaker, Author
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
—Jim Rohn (1930–2009) American Entrepreneur, Author, Motivational Speaker
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
—Buddhist Teaching
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
We never know the worth of water ’til the well is dry.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
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