Felix Adler Quotes

All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

No human on God's earth is a nobody.

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

And every human being is precious.

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

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

I think, so often, we can let our circumstances dictate what our value is. And I have to remember that my value is the same whether I'm in the dirt or I'm picked up and dusted off.

I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.

We can all mouth the words that every human is fundamentally worthy, but we don't act like it. We don't even believe it about ourselves.

Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure.

Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are.

How precious are the souls of men!

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!

I'm encouraging you to know what you're worth. And know that no matter who has more money in class, who has more stuff, who has a country house - nobody is worth more than anybody else.