Rick Riordan Quotes

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

It's interesting to know how much you are worth.

I don't know if I'm worth 80m euros, but I don't worry about the sums.

I see myself as what I'm worth.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.

We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

Take inventory of what you have to offer. Place a value on it. Respect it - because if you don't respect what you have to offer it's hard for other people to.

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.

I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.

The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.

Is dere anysing special about you? Anysing vorth saving?" Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.

Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naïve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.' 'And what would you give to be ME?' she inquired. 'Not a bad sixpence - strange as it may sound', I replied. 'You are but a poor creature.' 'You don't think so in your heart.' 'No; for in my heart you have not the outline of a place: I only occasionally turn you over in my brain.

How much are you worth? Jesus says, with his arms stretched out on the cross, "I'm willing to die for you, because you mean this much to me."

It's what you're worth.