Value Quotes - Page 3

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

Don’t just remain an accidental being.

Light or dark, happy or sad, black or white, right or wrong there are only two strong options, the opposites and others are weak.

The quality of time you dedicate to work is what determines your greatness.

Despite our human intelligence, we are very much like our friends in the wild; the world we live in is a survival of the fittest. But to this I say, let the fittest survive! Survival is overrated. We’re alive; we die. How long we survive for is of little significance. Our true significance lies not in the endless comparing of ourselves to one another, trying to see who is the fittest, using scales of evaluation and meaning that differ in the heart and mind of every individual; no - it lies in our deeds alone with the time we have.

Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.

The reason why most of your goals are probably not achieved is because you do not break down your goals into smaller units of work.

When you run for your life, you will become the one deciding how you use your time. You will be the one deciding that you are not going to pour out your life anymore. You will no longer allow the school system or the work system to decide what you do with your time.

Only through the conversion of time can greatness be bought.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

If you're about to take a risk--one that comes from within, one that expresses your true nature, that brings up fear after fear after fear--you know what to do. One: do the work, create the value. Two: draw the people that encourage you closer. They're the only ones that matter.

But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again. The bitterness we sold to the junk man - he got it all right, but we have it still. And when the owner men told us to go, that's us; and when the tractor hit the house, that's us until we're dead. To California or any place - every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. And some day - the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they'll all walk together, and there'll be a dead terror from it.

By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the ways of the world, such a person forgets himself, in a divine sense forgets his own name, dares not believe in himself, finds being himself too risky, finds it much easier and safer to be like the others, to become a copy, a number, along with the crowd. Now this form of despair goes practically unnoticed in the world. Precisely by losing oneself in this way, such a person gains all that is required for a flawless performance in everyday life, yes, for making a great success out of life. Here there is no dragging of the feet, no difficulty with his self and its infinitizing, he is ground smooth as a pebble, as exchangeable as a coin of the realm. Far from anyone thinking him to be in despair, he is just what a human being ought to be. Naturally, the world has generally no understanding of what is truly horrifying.

When you reproduce yourself, you don’t spend your life, you multiply it.

Another consequence of not knowing the value of what you possess in this case the value of life is that, there would be some other people around you that will better understand what you possess.

You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it.

What you do with your time on a daily basis determines what values will be added to your life

In life, everyone must decide in what area of life he or she wants to be great.

Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.

Sadly, so many people stand and watch their life melt away every day without taking advantage of it to produce something of worth.

The tragedy of life is that it comes just once and before you know it, it is gone. Since life comes just once, I encourage you to give it your best shot.

To build yourself is to add value to your life

Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.

What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living.

When you invest more time into something than others, you become the best among equals.

To know what to do with time is to convert a day and to convert a day is to produce a product.

When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.

The amount of time you invest into your products determines the quality of the products.

Happiness has no book value, but life has no value if there is no happiness.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

Every man whose tastes have been allowed to develop in wrong directions, or in whom the best tastes have failed of higher perfection, loses thereby from the inner joy and outer value of his whole life. Every good taste is a source and guarantee of happy healthy hours and days, and thus of the enrichment and elevation of life. A reasonable capacity to appreciate music and art quite suffices to enrich life and exercise a wholesome influence upon character. The taste for good reading is inseparable from a taste for good thinking.

We are all endowed with the wealth of time equally. Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this wealth.

Think about what you sell in terms of how it eases or prevents pain for your client.

God wants to make us understand and draw our attention to how important it is to learn to value one another

Always spend your time on things that add value and purpose to your life

Never waste time for someone who doesn’t bother to spend time with you, but with someone who will say, time is wasted if I’m not with you.

Stop living for compensation but begin to cultivate your own ground.

Don’t allow time to while away but take hold of time and make a demand on it to bring forth offspring.

Whatever your territory is does not matter, what matters is the amount of time you are ready to invest into it to become the king of that territory.

Do not underrate yourself trying to be somebody else.

If you must be great, you must learn to check and compel yourself to invest time.

If you want to know if someone was meant to be in your future, then remove all the worldly things about them from your mind. Don’t think about their looks, the intimate moments or their personality. Now, think about how they made you feel, how they improved your life and what virtues they possess that push you to want to become better. Did they bring you closer to God? Did they bring you to your life mission? Did they ever lie to you, betray you or made it impossible for you to feel comfortable speaking your mind? When you remove all the shine from a diamond, it becomes a glass rock. What value is it then? See beneath the surface and you will know who your future is with.

Self-improvement is possible only through time conversion in solitude.

The odds are, you highly underestimate how awesome you are. Stop doing that.

...there’s nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It’s the only measure of human value.

Money is just time that is well converted.

I think beauty is rarely worth the trouble.” Shahrzad gripped Irsa’s hand tighter in sisterly solidarity. “But I am worth a great deal more than what you see.

Hard work is the secret of being a genius.

To waste one hour is a proof that you lack understanding of life.

In this sense every serious choice has a tragicomic dimension. For it is impossible to be a human being without choosing, and it is impossible to choose without value denials, and it is impossible to deny values without guilt. That is a very simple though, but it forms the core definition of guilt: an awareness of significant value loss for which I know myself to be responsible. Guilt is the self-knowing of moral loss.

People were not getting back what they wanted for their sold labor. Taxes grew and services shrank. Prices rose and quality decayed. Everywhere people felt used and betrayed and coerced and cheated.

If you try to do a task at your odd hours, you will waste so much time only to find out that you did a poor job after all.

In India everything has a use and a value.

So because you are converting it, you are reproducing your life that way.

Be yourself because an original is always worth more than a copy.

Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead of some sophisticated task.

You must not allow any of your time to pass by without adding value to yourself and reproducing your life in others.

No matter where you go, there’s always something to deal with; if it’s not greed, it’s lust, or envy, or pride, or something else. You just have to live your life so uncorrupted that it offsets the corruption as much as possible.