Intrinsic Worth Quotes

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.

Your net worth is not the same thing as your self-worth. Your value is not based on your valuables.

Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

Self worth and net worth are not the same.

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.

Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.

Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.

One's real worth is never a quantifiable thing.

True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.

In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity.

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me.