(152 quotes found)
“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”
Lao Tzu
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“It's the most precious thing...to know absolutely where you belong. There's a whole emotional wrapping-around-of-you-here. You see the same rock, tree, road, clouds, sun – you develop a nice kind of intimacy with the world around you. To be intimate is to grow, to learn... [it] is absolutely fulfilling. Intimacy, that's my magic word for why I live here.”
Tessie Naranjo
“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious than life”
William Shakespeare
“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
“The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone”
Japanese Proverb
“A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“The most precious things in speech are pauses”
Ralph Richardson
