Quotes About Precious Things

#1. There was no point in stealing well or wisely if the loot couldn't be stashed somewhere safe.

Scott Lynch

#2. 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

#3. B2uties are the most precious thing to me in this world.

Yoseob

#4. Time is precious and should be spent doing things that make you happy, not brushing those very moments aside. That's when you really die, and I plan on living.

Katelin LaMontagne

#5. One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is to come, which may or may not happen, then you will only be wasting precious days you will wish in the future you could have cherished a bit longer.

R.J. Gonzales

#6. 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

#7. Dawn is a precious time of day. It reminds us that every glory must fade, and that all things, cruel or sweet, come to an end.

Simon Higgins

#8. Fingernails are for opening things and toenails are for storing precious minerals off the ground.

Kristen Schaal

#9. The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

Laozi

#10. The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time

Stephanie Barron

#11. 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

#12. The secret to life, she had said, was to find the little things, the unimportant ones that would nonetheless always remind you of the precious things they accompanied - and hold onto them.

Karl Schroeder

#13. Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

Bob Dylan

#14. Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things ... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.

P. J. O'Rourke

#15. Time is a most precious asset. Would you consider investing more of your time in the things of eternity in order to merit the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost and to benefit more fully from His influence?

Keith K. Hilbig

#16. Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

Richard Baxter

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

Ed Greenwood

#18. Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.

Edward Jay Epstein

#19. That was one thing the Divines had taught us: treasure every precious moment. Do the things you've always dreamed of doing. Spend as much time as you can with the ones you love, because tomorrow you might not get the chance.

Violet Cross

#20. Stop making things of less value your food for thought each moment of time! Your mind is precious. Mind your mind!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#21. Money is a needful and precious thing

Louisa May Alcott

#22. These are our precious things. Simple things. A currency of sentiments.

Fennel Hudson

#23. God blessed us with so many beautiful things around us 'NATURE' and then gave us the precious gift 'LIFE' to enjoy. So, why worried about future, Start 'To Live' because God chose you to experience the adventure of his own made world.

Manik Ghawri

#24. 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

#25. Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

Andrew Sean Greer

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Theodore Zeldin

#30. 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

#31. Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.

Jim Valvano

#32. I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.

Trent Reznor

#33. These precious things should be proud of their luck, if a woman like you owns them.

Waheed Ibne Musa

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Until you find where the goal post is, you shall only exert all your precious energy and ability shooting in the direction of goal kick without scoring any goal

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#37. Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

Charles Spurgeon

#38. 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

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

David Alejandro Fearnhead

#40. 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

#41. There are no permanent things, only fleeting moments of warmth and companionship, precious stationary seconds in a flicker of troubled days. The

Winston Graham

#42. I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

Fiona Apple

#43. There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

Ed Greenwood

#44. This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear of time, which unites generations and makes them share things in admiration.

Pope Paul VI

#45. Time will tell if it was well spent.
Time will tell where all your ideas went.
Time will allow you to achieve your goals.
Time is too precious to put on hold.

Don't waste time on meaningless things.
Take advantage of its benefits and all life brings.

Bianca McCormick-Johnson

#46. For tomorrow would be different. Still wonderful, yes. But not filled with this strange wonder. You don't have to be grown up to understand the way things change. To understand that a thing can be truly new only once, and precious because it came to you when you did not look for it.

Cameron Dokey

#47. 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

#48. What of honour? What of courage? What of all the things that bind the legions together?' He gave a shrug and a nod together, and a faint grin that was all the old Juvens; wild, erratic, carefree. His tilted palm said, 'What of them? Life is too precious.

M.C. Scott

#49. This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

Olga Korbut

#50. Life is precious and all too short. So I laugh, sing and dive into things heads first with the hope that I don't scrape my ass on the bottom. And when I do I break out the bandaids

K.L. Parry

#51. The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

Confucius

#52. 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

#53. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

Woodrow Wilson

#54. Each one of us is responsible for other living beings' happiness, besides our own. As a result, your loving kindness is the most wish-fulfilling thing in life, more precious than anything else in this world. That makes for a most satisfying, fulfilling life.

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

#55. 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

#56. Life is too short to waste your precious time on things that are of no value to your existence".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#57. 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

#58. All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#59. Our worst memories are precious, things we can't or won't forget, and sometimes they're what we guard the most.

Joe Hart

#60. The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious.

William Shakespeare

#61. You guys (E.L.F.) are all so precious for me. Can't be changed with other things.

Eunhyuk

#62. Do you really want to waste your precious time doing things that are neither important nor urgent?

Eddie De Jong

#63. The most precious things are always invisible; they are always kept hidden.

Sunday Adelaja

#64. Love can overcome many challenges. It's a precious treasure - worth more than all of these other miraculous things. It's the most powerful magic in the universe. Don't let it slip through your fingers. Hold onto it. Tightly.

Anonymous

#65. We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

Daphne Guinness

#66. The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.

Chief Seattle

#67. Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

Alfred North Whitehead

#68. The human memory is such a cruel, frustrating thing, the way it just discards things without asking permission, precious things. At least here, in my house, I have control over my memories.

Lisa Jewell

#69. Wasn't history full of the destruction of precious things?

Henry James

#70. Too much brightness blinds the eyes. Too much sound deafens the ears. Too much flavour ruins the tongue. Chasing desires to excess turns your mind towards madness, and valuing precious things impairs good judgment.

Lao-Tzu

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. The mission of my company is to bring three things to the world through entertainment: joy, happiness, and change. We must believe our precious time is being used to make a product worth more than anything else we could be doing.

Charlie Ebersol

#74. Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

Alex Flinn

#75. In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

Mark Twain

#76. When you hit the rock bottom of life, ponder! A precious gold might be there!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#77. 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

#78. We have now the precious opportunity to find out for ourselves whether the words we have heard and read so often can be taken literally: 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His justice, and all these things shall be added until you'.

Maria Von Trapp

#79. I care for you-you're precious to me. And one of the most precious things to me is your voice. Please tell me what you want, what you need, what you desire ...

Sylvain Reynard

#80. I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

Ben Whishaw

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

Owen Feltham

#82. 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

#83. Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Oscar Wilde

#84. Things are precious when they're hard to come by.

Lauren Kate

#85. I knew more happiness and love than I'd ever experienced in my life, and now understood how precious it was to have that love.

Raine Miller

#86. Those were the worst memories. Precious and perfect. Sharp as a mouthful of glass. I lay in bed, clenched into a trembling knot, unable to sleep, unable to turn my mind to other things, unable to stop myself from remembering again. And again. And again

Patrick Rothfuss

#87. All of us waste precious life doing things we don't like, to prove ourselves to people we don't respect, and to get things we don't want.

Ryan Holiday

#88. Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.

Vladimir Lenin

#89. Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time.

Maira Kalman

#90. All great and precious things are lonely.

John Steinbeck

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens 'till parents stop clenching their fists around precious things and people, let go, & trust God!

Gary Patton

#94. 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

#95. Being eccentric is having a great desire to experiment without always being willing to spend much precious time thinking things through.

Eric Vance Walton

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.

Garrison Keillor

#99. We buy things, not with money, but with our precious life we call time.

Debasish Mridha

#100. Learning to love any one is like an increase of property,
it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

George Eliot