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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• 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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• Your individuality is the most valuable thing you have.

  Martha Beck

  Individuality, Valuable

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

  Theophrastus

  Inspirational, Basketball, Time

  Theophrastus (1904). “The characters of Theophrastus”

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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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• The only real valuable thing is intuition.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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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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• Social media allows you to network, collaborate, and share your work with others. Building a solid network via social is the most valuable thing you can do for your business or personal brand.

  Chelsea Krost

  Media, Building, Social

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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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• I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.

  Chris Paul

  Said, Valuable, My Time

  "Chris Paul On Keeping Cool Under Fire". Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com.

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• When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Film, Assignments

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• Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Father, People, Taught

  Ahmed Zewail (2004). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.17, American Univ in Cairo Press

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• Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

  George Washington Carver

  Mother, Nature, Eye

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• One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.

  Chris Ware

  Teacher, Art, Upset

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• The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Trying, Way

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the most valuable things you can do to create higher levels of trust is to trust others more. Don't wait for them to prove themselves to you. Trust them.

  Karl Eikenberry

  Trust, Waiting, Levels

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• Where the world is going and what technology is leading us to in terms of the evolution of humanity is an incredibly valuable thing to understand.

  Tony Robbins

  Technology, Humanity, World

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  School, Science, Thinking

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