Most Precious Quotes

#1. That's not true. You've given me something very precious indeed. Your trust, Eve. And I know what
that cost you ... A woman's trust is the most priceless gift she can give a man. Her belief in his ability to keep her safe and protect her from all harm.

Maya Banks

#2. From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.

Sappho

#3. And yet it felt like an invasion of the part of his body, the physical sense that was most precious: something that betrayed him and also refused to abandon him.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#4. If it isn't something precious, it doesn't serve as a price!" "But if it means I'm throwing away the most precious thing I have ... what's the good of it?

CLAMP

#5. A warrior's most precious gift to society, after his skills and prowess, is his ability to pass on his greatness. As if we'd risk having future generations of virile perfection exposed to injury.

Eve Langlais

#6. Some of my most precious moments of insight have been those in which I have seen clearly that gratitude is the only possible response." (Sylvia Boorstein, from "You Don't Look Buddhist")

Sylvia Boorstein

#7. Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion.

Lewis H. Lapham

#8. Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

William James

#9. God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible.

Ted Nugent

#10. I always thought that what Rajima did with those cast-off peels was a metaphor for how she dealt with her arranged marriage. She transformed those peels, with palm sugar for sweetness and tamarind for tang, into something precious.

Padma Lakshmi

#11. The most precious inheritance that parents can give their children is their own happiness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#12. The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.

Eric Ries

#13. My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Steve Jobs

#14. We all have the same amount of time allotted to us each week: 10,080 minutes. No more, no less. We have the responsibility to choose how we spend those minutes. In reality, every passing minute is a moment we'll never get back. Without question, time is our most precious and elusive commodity.

Rodney Gage

#15. The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

Theodore Zeldin

#16. Alas, day, you brought light,
You trailed splendour
You showed us god:
I salute you, most precious one,
But I go to a new place,
Another life.

Hilda Doolittle

#17. The most precious things I have in my life were not bought, they were earned.

David Alejandro Fearnhead

#18. Oh how warm it makes one to know that there is one person in the world to whom one is everything. A lover is the most precious, the most marvelous possession.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#19. Her relationship with Jason was suddenly the most precious thing in the world to her; in that moment she loved him with all the remorseful passion that only a guilty heart could muster. From

Sam West

#20. The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

Nhat Hanh

#21. Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

Emmuska Orczy

#22. My heart beats for you and the most precious and beautifully fated life we share together.

Jewel E. Ann

#23. Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country ... But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers.

Ralph Nader

#24. My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.

Judd Nelson

#25. Could a benevolent designer, a craftsman who is mindful of harmony and joy, pleased by plenty and safety, tolerate such an abysmal existence for its most precious expressions of creation?

John Zande

#26. By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.

Owen Feltham

#27. A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#28. Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

Cassius Jackson Keyser

#29. The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

Mark Twain

#30. To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.

Janusz Korczak

#31. No gift is worth a damn, unless its the most precious thing you've got.

Ayn Rand

#32. I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same.

King Edward VIII

#33. Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

Henry Ward Beecher

#34. I couldn't help but buy them flowers, the most precious that money could ever buy!

Avijeet Das

#35. The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.

George MacDonald

#36. Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

Thomas Jefferson

#37. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Walter Anderson

#38. It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.

Rick Scott

#39. Truth is life's most precious commodity.

Edwin Louis Cole

#40. In fact, the most powerful forms of giving are non-material. The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything. When

Deepak Chopra

#41. Most people would call me incompetent, clumsy, flawed..."

"A pearl is a flaw. A diamond is an accident of nature. In all of creation, there's nothing more precious than the unexpected deviation.

Todd Mitchell

#42. General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#43. The most precious truth in the Bible is that God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him - in Him!

John Piper

#44. Love is the most precious flower in the universe.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#45. You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?

Ben Feldman

#46. How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. Sexual purity is youth's most precious possession. It is the foundation of all righteousness.

Harold B. Lee

#47. The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind

Theodorus Gaza

#48. I'd discovered that when the most precious thing in your life could slip through
your fingers, investments, money, those
things suddenly meant absolutely jack.
Spencer Blackwell

Fisher Amelie

#49. It is looking for the joys that come in small, precious packages and making the most of them, knowing that big packages of joy are few and far between.

Wilferd Peterson

#50. Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

Dale Carnegie

#51. The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#52. The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

David Attenborough

#53. We live so many lifetimes in one lifetime.

The most precious form of life is the child. Second is the cacao plant.

All I can do is do all I can.

Robyn Engel

#54. Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.

Sydney J. Harris

#55. A good memory is one of the most precious assets of spiritual living.

Max Anders

#56. The Most Precious Things Inside Us Look So Ordinary From Outside, Although Glamorous Things Outside Are Always Fake Deep Inside ...
It's The Truth Of Our Life That We Barely Recognize ..

Mohamed Safa

#57. Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private.

Dalai Lama

#58. The most precious etchings of caring can be traced not in the scope of its message, but in the integrity of its purpose.

Johnathan Jena

#59. Time does have a way of softening most things. Anger, hate, and even loss are often diluted by the passage of time. And memories, well they become more precious as days go by . . . until one day the cup that seemed half-empty, incredibly, becomes half-full.

Cynthia Mock Burroughs

#60. Don't devalue yourself, you are the world's most precious stone.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#61. Why do we allow the painful destruction of our most precious &valuable resource: our children, our future? Why do we have the right to live when they do not?" - Zara Heritage

Zara Heritage

#62. It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

Dawn French

#63. I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.

Gerry Spence

#64. The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels who had ever labored for their salvation, and that Lamb who had redeemed them with his most precious blood.

Isaac Newton

#65. God made salvation the most precious gift for humanity which is why only a few are chosen for God's Paradise in heaven. Matthew 22:11-14

Felix Wantang

#66. The most precious gift God gave humans is reason. Its best use is the search for knowledge. To know the human environment, to know the earth and galaxies, is to know God. Knowledge (science) is the best form of prayer.

Fatema Mernissi

#67. The most precious gift to give to your spouse is not your life because if you die,he/she will no longer have use of you rather the most precious gift is your time, attention, affection, self and love!

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#68. Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#69. Our time, however much it talks of economy, is a squanderer: it squanders what is most precious, the spirit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#70. Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.

William Shakespeare

#71. A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Eknath Easwaran

#72. If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature ...

John Burroughs

#73. There's a simple doctrine. Outside of a person's love the most sacred thing they can give is their labor. Labor is a very precious thing you have and any time you can combined labor and love you've really made a match.

James Carville

#74. In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.

Ingrid Betancourt

#75. He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

Yann Martel

#76. He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.

James Russell Lowell

#77. Health and happiness are the two most precious and elusive of human conditions. At their core, they are one and the same. Both are a function of balance.

Victor Shamas

#78. At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new
day of a most precious delusion.

Czeslaw Milosz

#79. What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.

Franz Cizek

#80. the imagination of a child is the most precious gift we can share

C.L. Bennett

#81. The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.

Robert A. Heinlein

#82. The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.

Martin Luther

#83. The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.

Simone Weil

#84. We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Mark Twain

#85. A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#86. Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#87. Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.

Eudora Welty

#88. Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.

William Osler

#89. Farmed animals are not future Buddhas donating their flesh out of compassion for those of us who have developed a craving for it. They are victims of our greed from whom we steal the most precious gift any of us has: life.

Norm Phelps

#90. World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#91. The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.

Adolf Hitler

#92. What you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.

Bill McKibben

#93. Love. Infinite, unwavering love, love that completely envelopes one's mind and soul. That is the love that can mold one's mind. Love is final and most precious gift of life, if you find it never let it go.

Markus Peterson

#94. His pain was his most precious and secret possession, and Six held on to it as fiercely as a jewel robbed from a corpse.

Ayana Mathis

#95. Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.

Philippa Gregory

#96. The closest and most precious people in your life are guaranteed to make you feel the entire spectrum of human emotions.

John Wayne Gacy

#97. Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.

Tristan Tzara

#98. The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything.

Deepak Chopra

#99. In marriage, those who persevere are rewarded with the most precious thing this earth has to offer: Marital love
a partnership that conquers the years. It takes time, but those who persevere are rewarded with, falling in love with their spouse.
pg v

Michael Ben Zehabe

#100. Hope is sometimes fleeting, but always precious. Sad to say, when the battle began, most of my companions had no hope at all.

T.A. Barron