Valuable Quotes

Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

You don't need other people to affirm that you're a valuable person.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.

Hold on to me: Someday I may be quite valuable.

A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.

Intelligence, adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.

The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.

Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

the female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as valuable leadership qualities.

It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

Colorado's majestic landscapes are one of our most valuable assets, and it's important that we work to preserve these treasures.

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Masochism is a valuable job skill.

There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.

I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

Time is one of our most valuable possessions. Use it wisely. Remind yourselves often that things that matter most should not be left to the mercy of things that matter the least.

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.

Beauty is . . . a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

The best traders I know are also the most humble people I know, coincidence? Or has the market taught them some very valuable lessons?