Valuable Things Quotes

What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it's likely that both of us will become better, but it's also quite possible we'll lose sight of what's truly valuable.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

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

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

The stuff that's good is the stuff that lives on.

Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.

The things that are the most valuable are often the ones you don't even know exist. -- Xavier, The Gatekeeper

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them.

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body.

They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life n' good health, n' passin' six weeks tests...these are real valuable to somebody.

You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach.

And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.

Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it's not nothing, it's something. But it's not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.

Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all.