Quotes about Value

The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

Even if I could only bring Him one little grape, I knew that grape was precious to Him because I had worked my whole life for it.

When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was deserting. If everyone of any value leaves France, what will remain of France?

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

The end of money is not ease but the opportunity to perform more service.

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.

An experience of God that cost nothing, does nothing, and is worth nothing.