Precious Things Quotes

• Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Money, Real

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• It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Country, Freedom

  Following the Equator ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• All great and precious things are lonely.

  John Steinbeck

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.458, Penguin

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• The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Things In Life

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• To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

  Anthony Burgess

  Solitude, World, Modern

  "But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1986.

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• Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Essence, Moments, Finality

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.304, Hachette UK

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• Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

  Alex Flinn

  Moving, Things In Life, Time To Move On

  Alex Flinn (2015). “Four Beastly Kendra Chronicles Collection: Beastly, Lindy's Diary, Bewitching, Mirrored”, p.74, HarperCollins

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• The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty

  Yoshida Kenko

  Things In Life, Life Is, Uncertainty

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• Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Income, Pay

  William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.262, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, Literature, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.235

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• The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

  Ralph Richardson

  Teaching, Parenting, Speech

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• I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Humility, Men

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• These precious things, let them bleed.

  Tori Amos

  Philosophy

  Song: Precious Things, 1992

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• When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

  Edward Cocker

  Wings, Shining, Honor

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• Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

  Gene Wilder

  Inspirational, Directors, Waste

  "Fictional character: Willy Wonka". "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?

  Mitch Albom

  Teacher, Tuesdays With Morrie, Jewels

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.192, Broadway Books

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• When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch – when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had.

  J.R. Ward

  Bait, Adults, Realizing

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• It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value.

  Jonathan Ive

  Life, Faithful, Consumed

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• A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

  Charles Spurgeon

  True Friend, Ambition, Character

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181”, p.764, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• ... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

  George Eliot

  Care, Increase, Should

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.549

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• We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Miracle, Body, Forget

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Missing Someone, Loving Someone

  Twitter post from May 20, 2012

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• The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

  David Attenborough

  Nature, Air, Water

  "David Attenborough: force of nature". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Missing, Power Of Now

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.49, New World Library

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• The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only for their own sake. For these self- centered individuals, the most precious things in the world is their ‘self.’ Like a cancer that eats and destroys its own cells, the self-centered individual is slowly dying inwardly.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Cancer, Self, Cells

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