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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• These precious things, let them bleed.

  Tori Amos

  Philosophy

  Song: Precious Things, 1992

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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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• 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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• The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty

  Yoshida Kenko

  Things In Life, Life Is, Uncertainty

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

  Dawn French

  Beautiful, Daughter, Dad

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• Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.

  Eudora Welty

  Country, Art, Voice

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.40, Modern Library

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• One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Reality, Long

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.404, Princeton University Press

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• Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Data, Data Science, Lasts

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• No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Sight, Stronger

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• It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Suffering, Trying, Our Society

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• My private life is the most precious thing to me.

  Leona Lewis

  Life Is, Private Life

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved...well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were. That's what you've taught me, fur face,and because of you I'll never be the same.

  Dean Koontz

  Love Is, Thinking, Fur

  Dean Koontz (2008). “Watchers”, p.326, Penguin

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