Precious Quotes

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Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds… — Dale Carnegie
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. — Zig Ziglar
Anyone who writes is too precious to lose. — Unknown Author
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we… — Benjamin Franklin
It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease… — David G. McAfee
It is your holy work, to deeply love, honor and respect the precious self that you are, the soul that only you hold. — Debbie Ford
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It… — Mark Twain
Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl. — Saadi
One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk,… — James E. Faust
Nobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it can’t be challenged. ... Almost all human progress is driven by people who… — Glenn Greenwald
The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is. — Eckhart Tolle
We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them. — Simone Weil
Freedom and security are precious gifts that we, as Americans, should never take for granted. We must do all we can to extend our hand… — Gary Sinise
We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious. — Marcus Buckingham
The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it. — Charles Spurgeon
...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for… — Margaret Thatcher
Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find… — Bill Watterson
A word in season is most precious. — Aesop
The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope and life and… — Jean Vanier
Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes.… — Constantin Stanislavski
The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home.... I have a Scottie. In… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it. — Mother Teresa
Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or… — James A. Michener
Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the… — Thomas Merton
Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious. — Vince Clarke

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