Valuable Quotes

1479 Valuable quotes by 1090 unique authors

For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider. — B. H. Liddell Hart
Instead of Criticizing Someone's Success, Why Not Learn Something Valuable from It? — Ernie J Zelinski
My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest eventually taught me… — Sue Thoele
It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable… — Hal Elrod
Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless. — Saadi
Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire. As long as… — Crowfoot
Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men to look askance at the patenting of… — Elihu Thomson
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively. — Carl Jung
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now. — Rita Rudner
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable. — Mark Twain
When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable. — Mark Twain
People would rather be shown how valuable you are, not told. — Roger Babson
Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. — Peg Bracken
Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than… — Grace Hopper
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends… — Edmund Burke
Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about. — Georges Braque
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers… — Clive James
It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering… — John A. Macdonald
Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow… — Ludwig von Mises
Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call… — Sathya Sai Baba
Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless, and… — Joshua Reynolds
Our alliance with AARP provides valuable insights into the critical 50- plus consumer segment. For more than two decades, The Home Depot has delivered home… — Robert Nardelli

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