Precious Quotes

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Friendship, Sunshine

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Forward, Spiritual, Reality

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius

Love, Morning, Enjoy

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Earl Nightingale

Life, Work, Family

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

Life, Pain, Character

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual, Soul, Far

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

God, Freedom, Country

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon

Love, After, Keep

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

Real, Soul, Cannot

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill

Truth, She, Lies

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

Life, Time, Money

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen Keller

Work, May, Fact

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare

Life, Honor, Far

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare

Adversity, Sweet, Ugly

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

Time, Greatest, Wasting

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
Elizabeth Edwards

Hope, Positive, Simple

I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.
Jim Valvano

Life, Laughter, Enjoy

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Albert Camus

Love, Small, Once

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
Hillary Clinton

Integrity, Voting, Moral

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais Nin

Human, Rare, Contact

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
Denis Waitley

Time, Health, Two

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Hope, Freedom, Means

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing, Difficult, Able

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
Aldous Huxley

Art, While, Possible

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
W. Clement Stone

Alone, Greatest, Giving

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Anne Lamott

Life, Good, Power

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
Albert Schweitzer

Spiritual, Accept, Road

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving

Nature, Good, Mind

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose Bierce

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