Top 100 Precious Things Are Quotes
#2. There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.
John Ruskin
#3. It set him free," said Lee. "It gave him the right to be a man, separate from every other man."
"That's lonely."
"All great and precious things are lonely."
"What is the word again?"
"Timshel - thou mayest.
John Steinbeck
#4. The most precious things are always invisible; they are always kept hidden.
Sunday Adelaja
#5. A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.
Plato
#6. It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one's marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can't afford to do anyway are vulgar.
Judith Martin
#7. Bad dreams are things precious the soul fears it may lose.
Rich Shapero
#8. 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
#9. Things that have been lost and then found are doubly precious, don't you think. People too.
Susan Vreeland
#10. Gratitude means to recognize the good in your life, be thankful for whatever you have, some people may not even have one of those things you consider precious to you (love, family, friends etc). Each day give thanks for the gift of life.You are blessed
Pablo
#11. Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.
Colin Bateman
#12. Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there
are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are
worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that
person isn't fit to live!
Martin Luther King Jr.
#13. The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever had, and still have, may be yours by stretching forth your hand and taking it.
John Burroughs
#14. Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.
Elizabeth Chandler
#15. If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?
Bill Watterson
#16. Youthful dreams are precious things. They ought not to be dashed as foolish and unrealistic just because they are young dreams. Innocence ought not to be destroyed from any callous conviction that a realistic sort of cynicism is better.
Mary Balogh
#17. Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.
Andrew Lam
#18. There's nothing in all the world I want but you - and your precious love - All the material things are nothing. I'd just hate to live a sordid, colorless existence - because you'd soon love me less - and less - and I'd do anything - anything - to keep your heart for my own -
Lauren Blakely
#19. Many years ago a friend of mine, Kevin O'Niel made a very profound comment ...
The difference between the love of God and the love of man is that man loves people or things because they are precious: but God simply loves us - and by loving us makes us precious.
Kevin King
#20. A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.
Richard De Bury
#21. Your father doesn't give his devotion lightly or carelessly. When you are given a piece of someone like that, someone who doesn't naturally trust others, it's more special than when it comes from those who are capricious with their love. As with all things, the rarity make it all the more precious
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#22. 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
#23. I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world that revolves around them, like writers do. It seems especially precious.
Miranda July
#24. 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
#25. The gods know, happiness is a precious and rare commodity, and indeed it seems that the more intelligent and perceptive the individual, the less happy they generally are. The cost of seeing things as they are, I expect.
Steven Erikson
#26. I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you can do for water control in America, because that will be our most precious resource. In America, you pay more for water than you do for gas.
Robin Williams
#27. People who write poisonous things about your work are using up precious moments of their life dwelling on yours. These are moments they will never get back. Let that be a comfort to you.
Chuck Lorre
#28. Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.
Paul Valery
#29. You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his people. When a person strikes rock bottom with a sense of nothingness or helplessness, he may find that he has struck the Rock of Ages
John Piper
#31. Our memories, those precious moments that shape our lives and makes us who we are. Our friends, our families, and all the special things we hold close to our hearts. Those are the things that can never be replaced
Virginia McKevitt
#32. neighbourly kindness is among those things that are the more precious the older they get. Indeed,
George Eliot
#33. I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
Karl Lagerfeld
#34. How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#35. When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
Edwin Booth
#36. I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.
Brian May
#37. There are people who will offer you many things and demand nothing in return. Fear them the most, for they are the ones who will take the things that are most precious to you and then their demands will come at a time when it is most inconvenient to you.
Anand Neelakantan
#38. Or we can cast off our fear, gather those things around us that are precious, shedding that which only seeks to hinder us and head out into the world, eyes wide open.
L.B. Johnson
#39. In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares.
Anthony Trollope
#40. The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
Charles Caleb Colton
#41. 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
#42. We shall never understand peace, justice and the living of life until we recognize that all people are human and that humans are the most precious things on earth.
Wally Hickel
#43. The small things in life are sometimes the most precious gifts we are given, and when you recognize them when they arrive, then you are truly blessed.
Raine Miller
#44. You should not delay the good things in life. Just do them. Whenever you get a chance to do spiritual practice or seva, don't miss it. Those are the real precious moments of your life.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#45. Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
Oscar Wilde
#46. I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.
Chris LeDoux
#47. The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
Albert Einstein
#48. Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters
#49. recognizing in that moment that there were some things we are meant to keep for ourselves, too precious to share with others. She
Hala Alyan
#50. When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.
John Updike
#51. Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
Charles Caleb Colton
#53. Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?
Leigh Hunt
#54. I am not depressed. I just miss people around me.. I am sure of this: missing people is good in a way.. It helps me realize how precious they are.. how they've changed my life..
Saravana Kumar Murugan
#55. Life is too short to waste your precious time on things that are of no value to your existence".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#56. Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#57. We are the sum total of our memories. Memories are the most precious things we have. Good or bad. That's what make us who we are. What would we be without them?
Alexandra Potter
#58. For a few precious moments ... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky ... where all things are again possible ... and the wind blows free.
Larry L. King
#59. There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.
Ed Greenwood
#60. There are no permanent things, only fleeting moments of warmth and companionship, precious stationary seconds in a flicker of troubled days. The
Winston Graham
#61. Content and peace of mind are valuable things: I could wish, my dear friend, that these precious jewels were less transitory.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#62. There are few things in life as precious to us as our children. Rare is the woman or the man who wouldn't readily die for his or her offspring.
Debra Webb
#63. Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
Guy De Maupassant
#64. There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
Henry Ford
#65. Our worst memories are precious, things we can't or won't forget, and sometimes they're what we guard the most.
Joe Hart
#66. Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink.
Tina Fey
#67. You have treasured people, places, and things. They are precious and powerful. Fight for them. Don't just let them lounge in the back of your mind. A love ignored will wither and die.
Jessica Hagy
#68. You're very lucky ... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.
N.K. Jemisin
#69. These are our precious things. Simple things. A currency of sentiments.
Fennel Hudson
#70. Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.
Ed Greenwood
#71. Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.
Richard Baxter
#72. Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.
Paul Valery
#73. Fingernails are for opening things and toenails are for storing precious minerals off the ground.
Kristen Schaal
#74. When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.
Patricia Kaas
#75. B2uties are the most precious thing to me in this world.
Yoseob
#76. We won the lottery in life and life is such a beautiful, precious gift, and we have to savor it, because as far as we know, we are the only living things in the universe, so it is our duty to protect it.
Francesca Martinez
#77. Eyes speak louder than words; life is precious; hate is poison; God is the best of all possible friends; silence and time are valuable treasures; happiness can be just as powerful in pretend; and soft licorice is a temptation in any color, especially exotic black.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#78. Sometimes the beauty of something is created by time and experiences, and those things are often more precious to those who look hard enough, and value the burnishings.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#79. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.
Og Mandino
#80. Prosperity depends on ferocity. The only things that keep your precious grandmothers in their tea and cookies are the fists at the end of your arms.
Anthony Doerr
#81. Memories are like Diamonds. They are precious and and wonderful things. Cherish each one.
Roy Carl Weiler Sr.
#82. In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
G. Willow Wilson
#83. We try to discover in things, which become precious to us on that account, the reflection of what our soul has projected on to them; we are disillusioned when we find that they are in reality devoid of the charm which they owed, in our minds, to the association of certain ideas.
Marcel Proust
#84. The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.
Ally Carter
#85. Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Bourne
#86. The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a midday rain, or scented with pinon pine. The air is precious to the red man, for all things are the same breath - the animals, the trees, the man.
Chief Seattle
#87. When you are completely free from boundaries, you don't have to have a huge number of material things. You already own something far more precious. You own yourself.
Deepak Chopra
#88. Time is a precious commodity that should not be wasted doing things that are not important to you.
T.K. Oliver
#89. Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.
Townes Van Zandt
#90. Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.
Stephen Levine
#91. I'm not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.
Esperanza Spalding
#92. Everywhere in nature we are taught the lessons of patience and waiting. We want things a long time before we get them, and the fact that we want them a long time makes them all the more precious when they come.
Joseph F. Smith
#93. Things are precious when they're hard to come by.
Lauren Kate
#94. Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
#95. There are things in the world that cannot be brought about. There are mistakes that cannot be repaired. But there is one thing sure
that loyalty and friendship are the most precious possessions a man can have.
Herbert Hoover
#96. Those of little faith mistake local cloud cover for general darkness. Keeping spiritually intact results in our keeping precious perspective by seeing "things as they really are."
Neal A. Maxwell
#97. I've thought about how it will make things easier for you. But I can't do that because more than my emotions, the future of Fresh Men is more important. Because more than my pride, my friends are more precious.
Taeyang
#98. Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.
Louis L'Amour
#99. Do you really want to waste your precious time doing things that are neither important nor urgent?
Eddie De Jong
#100. You guys (E.L.F.) are all so precious for me. Can't be changed with other things.
Eunhyuk
