Valuable Quotes - Page 7

• In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Money, Opportunity

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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• Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone... each of us can bring to fruition these innate, God-given abilities.

  George H. Bender

  Unique, Waiting, Fruition

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• It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

  Mark Twain

  Optimistic, Lovely, Disposition

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.62, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind

  Theodorus Gaza

  Dog, Pet, Facts

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• No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Death, Real

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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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• The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

  Melinda Gates

  Foundation, Charity, Next

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

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• The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Intelligence, Doe, Use

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• A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values seep into every aspect of human endeavour. It's a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.

  Michael Sandel

  Tools, Politics, Way

  Michael J. Sandel (2012). “What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets”, p.13, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is quite enough obstacle to the progress of mankind in that most valuable of all qualities, honesty of word or of deed.

  Thomas Huxley

  Honesty, Believe, Religion

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.241, Cambridge University Press

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

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

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• His wry sense of humour and his stalwart courage were an inspiring example to so many. His ability to laugh at Life's idiosyncrasies and himself in a self deprecating way taught that most valuable of lessons: 'to be of good cheer, no matter what Life threw at you, and ever to find the hope that dwells in every human heart'.

  John McLeod

  Cheer, Heart, Humor

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• Softly and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything.'' It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial picture, worry about investments, and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal principle which you are part of. You must release everything when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go by in frustration and worry over not having enough? If so, relax and remember that you only get what you have for a short period of time. When you awaken you will see the folly of being attached to anything.

  Wayne Dyer

  Struggle, Frustration, Attachment

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• To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  God, Mean, Unique

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• Living with animals can be a wonderful experience, especially if we choose to learn the valuable lessons animals teach through their natural enthusiasm, grace, resourcefulness, affection and forgiveness.

  Richard Pitcairn

  Nature, Animal, Grace

  Richard H. Pitcairn, Susan Hubble Pitcairn (2017). “Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats”, p.192, Rodale

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• There are a few activities which are immensely valuable: laughter is one of these activities. Singing, dancing, are also of the same quality, but laughter is the quickest.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Dancing, Singing

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• Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  Laozi

  Change, Happiness, Appreciation

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• I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Believe, Ignorance, Carpe Diem

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• A woman is most beautiful when she smiles. Other than that, the most valuable tip I've learned is always use a skin moisturiser!

  Beyonce Knowles

  Beauty, Beautiful, Skins

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• A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.

  Anna Nalick

  Teacher, Loneliness, Math

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Caring, Healthy

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.253

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• One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. ... I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.

  Albert Einstein

  Jesus, Home, People

  "instein's God - Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God". Book by Robert N. Goldman (p. 98), 1997.

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• Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.

  Dan Millman

  Eye, Exercise, Meditation

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• life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Mind, Spirit

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.249, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don't let fear intimidate you.

  Joel Osteen

  Life, Destiny, Important

  Twitter post from Mar 24, 2013

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