Catholic Church Quotes

At the end of the day, you're not defined, I don't believe, by your financial means. That doesn't make you a better person or a smarter person.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

The government is not best which secures mere life and property -- there is a more valuable thing -- manhood.

Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

Man is not made better by being degraded.

We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.

Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

It's definitely a struggle to prove yourself just as a good human being. I'm so proud of who I am and what I've become, the morals I have, and the people that I'm surrounded by.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beauty is not just physical.

It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

I feel my personality is richer than my bank account. So if I meet a girl, maybe first she just likes me because I'm rich. But then she's gonna get to know me and say, 'Screw the money.'

Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes.

Money is not God, and human dignity is very important.

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 worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

The world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is without the honor and strength of the soul can be anything but happy.

The only respect you should have is the one you earn.