Valuable Quotes

To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.

People are your most valuable asset. Only people can be made to appreciate in value.

A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.

When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.

Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.

Your individuality is the most valuable thing you have.

Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself

Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in.

Remember praise is more valuable than blame.

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Good conscience is the most valuable asset of all!

Sometimes the best people to be around are not exactly like you - because if they were, what is the point? If they contribute something different than you can, that is when they are valuable.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.

The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.

Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

The most valuable things in life can't be bought with money.

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

Do yourself a favor; don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.

I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in the long-run.

There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

Cease to sin, because you will not meet Allah with anything [as valuable] as few sins.

Being truly thankful makes you infinitely more resourceful. By sincerely appreciating what you have, you find new and valuable ways to make use of it.

In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.

Well, I think I learned a valuable lesson. Always take down your Christmas decorations after new years or you might get filleted by a hooker from God.

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo.

When we brand things, our brains perceive them as more special and valuable than they actually are.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

People would rather be shown how valuable you are, not told.

One of the greatest struggles of the healing process is to forgive both yourself and others and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts.