Quotes About Value and Life
“Money is only a human invention.”
― Vanna Bonta, Degrees: Thought Capsules
“Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“But somewhere, a child surprises himself with his endurance, his quick mind, his dexterous hands. Somewhere a child accomplishes with ease that which usually takes great effort. And this child, who has been blind to his past, but his heart still beats for the thrill of the race, this child's soul awakens. And a new champion walks among us.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
“I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, "those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.”
― John Green
“I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.”
― Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
“Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Power of a Woman
“... I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all those times we fished together. Do you remember all those times we fished together? You were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and I cannot ever think of you without feeling shame and regret. Regret… When it comes to you, Mariam jo, I have oceans of it. I regret that I did not see you the day you came to Herat. I regret that I did not open the door and take you in. I regret that I did not make you a daughter to me, that I let you live in that place for all those years. And for what? Fear of losing face? Of staining my so-called good name? How little those things matter to me now after all the loss, all the terrible things I have seen in this cursed war. But now, of course, it is too late. Perhaps that is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. Now all I can do is say that you were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and that I never deserved you. Now all I can do is ask for your forgiveness. So forgive me, Mariam jo. Forgive me, forgive me. Forgive me...”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
“One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.”
― Deborah Day
“When Thoreau considered "where I live and what I live for," he tied together location and values. Where we live doesn't just change how we live; it informs who we become. Most recently, technology promises us lives on the screen. What values, Thoreau would ask, follow from this new location? Immersed in simulation, where do we live, and what do we live for?”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
“The word 'friend' has become so utterly void of meaning in a world governed by social media. How can anyone truly claim to have eleven hundred friends ? In my book that would involve making time to meet at least three of them every day of the year.”
― Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe
“To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.”
― Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
“It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians.”
― Tiffany Madison
“No matter how many indigested actions a female appears to exhibit to the male psyche, she is still a woman. She's the specialty of the house. However she doesn't come at a sale price. Considering her value, a woman is one of the best deals life has to offer.”
― Will Leamon, Mama, Me & 'em: Bittersweet Memories
“Time is much more valuable than money.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Beautiful Quotes
tags: inspiring-quotes, life-lessons, money-management, money-quotes, time, time
“A highly developed values system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost.”
― Idowu Koyenikan
“Know your value, accept nothing but the best.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“We are but one of many ideas against a greater imagination.”
― James C. Emlund
“Listen and look long at beauty that compels you, spontaneously engage what naturally calls to you…this is how we recover our true personal values.”
― Darrell Calkins
“Sometimes it takes you to lose something you rely have to learn the good of what you really had.”
― Auliq Ice
“We should count our blessings more than our happenings, as much as we should count our savings more than our earnings.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes
“May our lives and gentle spirit be evident to all that we are members of God's family.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Beautiful Quotes
“With pure nature, money isn't necessary but meaningful to every one, including me, but i don't make it a principle rule because I can live without it.”
― Auliq Ice
“The greatest and priceless gift you can give to someone is to add 'value' and encouragement to their quest to GROW & SUCCEED in that which they truly yearn for and dream about: it can be simplest things like learning how swim or drive a car.....anything”
― Katlego Semusa
“if the world will attain its utmost peace and stability;and contentions be limited, then the ideology, philosophy and mentality of people in the world should be shifted from the more you acquire the more valuable you are to the more you give the more important you are and with the mentality that giving is a sacred responsibility and not a competition”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“The true worth of a man is not seen in the value his money gives him but in the value he gives his money by the uses he puts it to”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock
“Deciding we won't drive to that chain grocery store and buy that imported pineapple is a path to liberation. Deciding to walk to the farmers' market and buy fresh, local peas is like spitting in the eye of the industries that control us. Every act of refusal is also an act of assent. Every time we way no to consumer culture, we say yes to something more beautiful and sustaining. Life is not something we go through or that happens to us; it's something we create by our own decisions.”
― Kathleen Dean Moore, If Your House Is On Fire
“Travelling in other’s shoes is a complex process. Everyone carries loads of inherited virtues and then, heaps of experience acquired while travelling their own exclusive path of life. One’s personality, particularly the way one thinks, beholds both inborn traits and learned knowledge. Unless one is born to the same parents as the other, exactly at same time, beholding same blend of inherent traits and travelled the same path the other has travelled so far—a biological and pragmatic impossibility—it is imprudent to claim having knowledge of other’s thought process. One’s uniqueness is not constrained to the physical form, but is pertinent, too, to intellectual, emotional and spiritual forms.”
― Hari Parameshwar, Chase of Choices
“Value supported family and friends.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“អ្នកប្រាជ្ញទាំងឡាយពុំមែនជាមនុស្សដែលធ្វេីតម្រូវចិត្តរបស់អ្នកដទៃទេ ប៉ុន្តែជាមនុស្សដែលធ្វេីនូវអ្វីដែលខ្លួនយល់ថាត្រឹមត្រូវស្របតាមឧត្តមគតិ បេីសិនទោះជាទង្វេីនោះត្រូវប្រទូស្ដនឹងជនពាលដ៏ច្រេីនយ៉ាងណានោះក៏ដោយ ៕”
― Thai Kimleang
“Without ethics, a human race falls to inhumanity. Ethics determines your real value in this world and the hereafter.”
― Nazim Ambalath
“Dignity
/ˈdignitē/ noun
1. The moment you realize that the person you cared for has nothing intellectually or spiritually to offer you, but a headache.
2. The moment you realize God had greater plans for you that don’t involve crying at night or sad Pinterest quotes.
3. The moment you stop comparing yourself to others because it undermines your worth, education and your parent’s wisdom.
4. The moment you live your dreams, not because of what it will prove or get you, but because that is all you want to do. People’s opinions don’t matter.
5. The moment you realize that no one is your enemy, except yourself.
6. The moment you realize that you can have everything you want in life. However, it takes timing, the right heart, the right actions, the right passion and a willingness to risk it all. If it is not yours, it is because you really didn’t want it, need it or God prevented it.
7. The moment you realize the ghost of your ancestors stood between you and the person you loved. They really don't want you mucking up the family line with someone that acts anything less than honorable.
8. The moment you realize that happiness was never about getting a person. They are only a helpmate towards achieving your life mission.
9. The moment you believe that love is not about losing or winning. It is just a few moments in time, followed by an eternity of situations to grow from.
10. The moment you realize that you were always the right person. Only ignorant people walk away from greatness.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“ You Chose
You chose.
You chose.
You chose.
You chose to give away your love.
You chose to have a broken heart.
You chose to give up.
You chose to hang on.
You chose to react.
You chose to feel insecure.
You chose to feel anger.
You chose to fight back.
You chose to have hope.
You chose to be naïve.
You chose to ignore your intuition.
You chose to ignore advice.
You chose to look the other way.
You chose to not listen.
You chose to be stuck in the past.
You chose your perspective.
You chose to blame.
You chose to be right.
You chose your pride.
You chose your games.
You chose your ego.
You chose your paranoia.
You chose to compete.
You chose your enemies.
You chose your consequences.
You chose.
You chose.
You chose.
You chose.
However, you are not alone. Generations of women in your family have chosen. Women around the world have chosen. We all have chosen at one time in our lives. We stand behind you now screaming:
Choose to let go.
Choose dignity.
Choose to forgive yourself.
Choose to forgive others.
Choose to see your value.
Choose to show the world you’re not a victim.
Choose to make us proud.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Money is only a human invention.”
― Vanna Bonta, Degrees: Thought Capsules
“Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“But somewhere, a child surprises himself with his endurance, his quick mind, his dexterous hands. Somewhere a child accomplishes with ease that which usually takes great effort. And this child, who has been blind to his past, but his heart still beats for the thrill of the race, this child's soul awakens. And a new champion walks among us.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
“I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, "those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.”
― John Green
“I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.”
― Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
“Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Power of a Woman
“... I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all those times we fished together. Do you remember all those times we fished together? You were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and I cannot ever think of you without feeling shame and regret. Regret… When it comes to you, Mariam jo, I have oceans of it. I regret that I did not see you the day you came to Herat. I regret that I did not open the door and take you in. I regret that I did not make you a daughter to me, that I let you live in that place for all those years. And for what? Fear of losing face? Of staining my so-called good name? How little those things matter to me now after all the loss, all the terrible things I have seen in this cursed war. But now, of course, it is too late. Perhaps that is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. Now all I can do is say that you were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and that I never deserved you. Now all I can do is ask for your forgiveness. So forgive me, Mariam jo. Forgive me, forgive me. Forgive me...”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
“One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.”
― Deborah Day
“When Thoreau considered "where I live and what I live for," he tied together location and values. Where we live doesn't just change how we live; it informs who we become. Most recently, technology promises us lives on the screen. What values, Thoreau would ask, follow from this new location? Immersed in simulation, where do we live, and what do we live for?”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
“The word 'friend' has become so utterly void of meaning in a world governed by social media. How can anyone truly claim to have eleven hundred friends ? In my book that would involve making time to meet at least three of them every day of the year.”
― Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe
“To be a man is to bring together that which you should be and that which you are. Deception is darkness.”
― Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife
“It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians.”
― Tiffany Madison
“No matter how many indigested actions a female appears to exhibit to the male psyche, she is still a woman. She's the specialty of the house. However she doesn't come at a sale price. Considering her value, a woman is one of the best deals life has to offer.”
― Will Leamon, Mama, Me & 'em: Bittersweet Memories
“Time is much more valuable than money.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Beautiful Quotes
tags: inspiring-quotes, life-lessons, money-management, money-quotes, time, time
“A highly developed values system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost.”
― Idowu Koyenikan
“Know your value, accept nothing but the best.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“We are but one of many ideas against a greater imagination.”
― James C. Emlund
“Listen and look long at beauty that compels you, spontaneously engage what naturally calls to you…this is how we recover our true personal values.”
― Darrell Calkins
“Sometimes it takes you to lose something you rely have to learn the good of what you really had.”
― Auliq Ice
“We should count our blessings more than our happenings, as much as we should count our savings more than our earnings.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes
“May our lives and gentle spirit be evident to all that we are members of God's family.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Beautiful Quotes
“With pure nature, money isn't necessary but meaningful to every one, including me, but i don't make it a principle rule because I can live without it.”
― Auliq Ice
“The greatest and priceless gift you can give to someone is to add 'value' and encouragement to their quest to GROW & SUCCEED in that which they truly yearn for and dream about: it can be simplest things like learning how swim or drive a car.....anything”
― Katlego Semusa
“if the world will attain its utmost peace and stability;and contentions be limited, then the ideology, philosophy and mentality of people in the world should be shifted from the more you acquire the more valuable you are to the more you give the more important you are and with the mentality that giving is a sacred responsibility and not a competition”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“The true worth of a man is not seen in the value his money gives him but in the value he gives his money by the uses he puts it to”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock
“Deciding we won't drive to that chain grocery store and buy that imported pineapple is a path to liberation. Deciding to walk to the farmers' market and buy fresh, local peas is like spitting in the eye of the industries that control us. Every act of refusal is also an act of assent. Every time we way no to consumer culture, we say yes to something more beautiful and sustaining. Life is not something we go through or that happens to us; it's something we create by our own decisions.”
― Kathleen Dean Moore, If Your House Is On Fire
“Travelling in other’s shoes is a complex process. Everyone carries loads of inherited virtues and then, heaps of experience acquired while travelling their own exclusive path of life. One’s personality, particularly the way one thinks, beholds both inborn traits and learned knowledge. Unless one is born to the same parents as the other, exactly at same time, beholding same blend of inherent traits and travelled the same path the other has travelled so far—a biological and pragmatic impossibility—it is imprudent to claim having knowledge of other’s thought process. One’s uniqueness is not constrained to the physical form, but is pertinent, too, to intellectual, emotional and spiritual forms.”
― Hari Parameshwar, Chase of Choices
“Value supported family and friends.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“អ្នកប្រាជ្ញទាំងឡាយពុំមែនជាមនុស្សដែលធ្វេីតម្រូវចិត្តរបស់អ្នកដទៃទេ ប៉ុន្តែជាមនុស្សដែលធ្វេីនូវអ្វីដែលខ្លួនយល់ថាត្រឹមត្រូវស្របតាមឧត្តមគតិ បេីសិនទោះជាទង្វេីនោះត្រូវប្រទូស្ដនឹងជនពាលដ៏ច្រេីនយ៉ាងណានោះក៏ដោយ ៕”
― Thai Kimleang
“Without ethics, a human race falls to inhumanity. Ethics determines your real value in this world and the hereafter.”
― Nazim Ambalath
“Dignity
/ˈdignitē/ noun
1. The moment you realize that the person you cared for has nothing intellectually or spiritually to offer you, but a headache.
2. The moment you realize God had greater plans for you that don’t involve crying at night or sad Pinterest quotes.
3. The moment you stop comparing yourself to others because it undermines your worth, education and your parent’s wisdom.
4. The moment you live your dreams, not because of what it will prove or get you, but because that is all you want to do. People’s opinions don’t matter.
5. The moment you realize that no one is your enemy, except yourself.
6. The moment you realize that you can have everything you want in life. However, it takes timing, the right heart, the right actions, the right passion and a willingness to risk it all. If it is not yours, it is because you really didn’t want it, need it or God prevented it.
7. The moment you realize the ghost of your ancestors stood between you and the person you loved. They really don't want you mucking up the family line with someone that acts anything less than honorable.
8. The moment you realize that happiness was never about getting a person. They are only a helpmate towards achieving your life mission.
9. The moment you believe that love is not about losing or winning. It is just a few moments in time, followed by an eternity of situations to grow from.
10. The moment you realize that you were always the right person. Only ignorant people walk away from greatness.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“ You Chose
You chose.
You chose.
You chose.
You chose to give away your love.
You chose to have a broken heart.
You chose to give up.
You chose to hang on.
You chose to react.
You chose to feel insecure.
You chose to feel anger.
You chose to fight back.
You chose to have hope.
You chose to be naïve.
You chose to ignore your intuition.
You chose to ignore advice.
You chose to look the other way.
You chose to not listen.
You chose to be stuck in the past.
You chose your perspective.
You chose to blame.
You chose to be right.
You chose your pride.
You chose your games.
You chose your ego.
You chose your paranoia.
You chose to compete.
You chose your enemies.
You chose your consequences.
You chose.
You chose.
You chose.
You chose.
However, you are not alone. Generations of women in your family have chosen. Women around the world have chosen. We all have chosen at one time in our lives. We stand behind you now screaming:
Choose to let go.
Choose dignity.
Choose to forgive yourself.
Choose to forgive others.
Choose to see your value.
Choose to show the world you’re not a victim.
Choose to make us proud.”
― Shannon L. Alder
