Valuable Things Quotes

• The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Real, Things In Life

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• The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.

  Adam Osborne

  Encouraging, Business, Mistake

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• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.514, Harvard University Press

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• The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.

  Andre Kertesz

  Memories, Men, Photographer

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• Your individuality is the most valuable thing you have.

  Martha Beck

  Individuality, Valuable

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• I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

  Laura Bush

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Art, Business

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

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• Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

  Theophrastus

  Inspirational, Basketball, Time

  Theophrastus (1904). “The characters of Theophrastus”

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• I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.

  Rian Johnson

  Thinking, Ideas, Brain

  "Rian Johnson on his writing process and the appeal of alternate-history films". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 27, 2012.

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• It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

  Diogenes

  Men, Expression, Valuable

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• The only real valuable thing is intuition.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.

  Alan Thicke

  Inspiring, Parenting, Together

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• You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Money, Humorous, Insightful

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

  Samuel Gompers

  Independent, Men, Thinking

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• One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.

  Napoleon Hill

  Art, Valuable, Persons

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.277, Penguin

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• Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Literature, Valuable

  Following the Equator ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Edmund Burke 25

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• There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Design, Serendipity

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• If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

  Jonathan Swift

  Happiness, Success, Heaven

  Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh, 12 - 13 Aug. 1720 See Luther 3; Steele 2

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• The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

  C. S. Lewis

  Worship Music, Delight, Psalms

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

  John Steinbeck

  Freedom, Fighting, Government

  John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.827, Penguin

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• This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

  John Steinbeck

  Freedom, Fighting, Eden

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.116, Penguin

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  The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

  John Steinbeck

  Freedom, I Hate You, Eden

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.116, Penguin

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• The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

  Albert Einstein

  Personality, Creative, Political

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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  Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

  Taylor Swift

  Art, Important, Should

  " Taylor Swift takes a stand over Spotify music royalties" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2014.

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• You don't owe the internet your time. Your time is yours, whatever time you give the internet is a gift. The internet does not know this, and it will never learn. Time is the most precious thing you have. More than money, or land, or prestige, or any valuable thing you can think of, a life is measured in time. The sooner you walk away from a useless fight, the more of it you get to have.

  Quinn Norton

  Fighting, Thinking, Land

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