Top 1200 Precious Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Try new things, step out of your comfort zone, take risks, do things in ways you've never done them before, ask for help, surround yourself with self-actualized people, become obsessed with the fact that you have one go-round on this planet as the you that is you, and realize how precious and important it is not to squander that.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

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

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

Privacy has become the most precious thing. Things have got more cryptic in my writing.

Do you see any majority, anywhere, in this imperfect and irreligious world, admitting that the minority is precious? That any minority is precious?

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

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.

He is many things - dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy - but he comes from an age when a man's word was indeed precious.

I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

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.

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.

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

You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.

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.

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.

Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

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

If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.

One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.

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

Democracy is a precious thing and the rights of parliament are a precious thing.

Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.

I worked at a jewelry store to pay the bills when I first moved to N.Y.C., and I always loved the phrase 'Semi Precious.' So I wanted to just call the band Semi Precious, but my dad told it was kinda sissy, so I added Weapons.

Doesn’t it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn’t it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don’t feel very precious?

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

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

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.

Our overvaluation of speed (time here as only money) has robbed us of many things that are at least equally precious.

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

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.

Health is a precious gift. You realise more and more as you get older just how precious a gift it is.

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.

No one was ever good enough for anybody's precious sons. No one ever called daughters precious, and why was that? Things had not changed very much. In the end women like Emily and Ingrid and Freya and Joanna only had one another to lean on. The men were wonderful when they were around, but their fires burned too bright, they lived too close to the sun - look what happened to her boy, and to her man. Gone. Women only had one another in the end.

My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.

I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques - precious things that seem to be from another time - and using them to create a contemporary, new story.

This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.

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.

I think that every day should be savored, and so a lot of 'Stop Where You Are' comes out of that idea that life is really precious, the people around us are precious, and every single moment is worth celebrating.

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.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world, the most truly selfless act

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.

It will be full of precious stones and jewels, and best of all, full of precious souls!-Immortal souls, saved souls that love Jesus and that you won to the Lord.

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

That's the gift 'Precious' has given me. You really think you're telling a story about a fat black girl, and only fat black girls will understand it, and then you realize we're all Precious.

I've been a writer for a long time but I kind of had to get rid of a lot of the things I learned in Hollywood but I kept some of them too. And things I kept were: don't be precious, kill your darlings is always good, give it dynamics - you don't want it to be all joyful, all sad.

The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones.

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!

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.

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.

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.

The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things.