Quotes of: Valuable-thing Keyword

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

Natalie du Toit

A man who cannot tolerate small ills can never accomplish great things.

Chinese

The main thing is that we can smile at our duties -- yes even at our suffering.

Chinese

The horse may wish to do one thing, but he who saddles him another.

Spanish

"Come see me" and "come live with me" are two different things.

Virgin Islander

[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept both feet on the ascetic ground. He was too sick to follow his most important insight: that the main thing in life i...

Du mußt dein Leben ändern

We are to allow one thing to be really and truly distinct from the other, to be its own genuine self. There is a logical and philosophical urge in thinking men to reduce all things to a single unity. But this urge of the natural reason tends to petri...

God's Son and God's World

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective

Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only do one thing, what would it be? And you can't rationalize th...

Jeff Weiner

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible....

Horseradish

That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.

The Space Between

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

A Mercy

I know a thing or two about a thing or two. One of those things is not love. Also, one of those things is not love.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

That moment you realize you are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons and the wrong thing for the right reasons.

The Little Silkworm

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

Seeker After Truth

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

Tao Te Ching

You need to be doing fewer things for effect instead of doing more things with side effects

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.

Paris in April

She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.

The Twilight Saga

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

A World Without Heroes