Pope Francis Quotes

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

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

The little man is still a man.

Man is worth more for what he is than for what he has.

There's no prerequisites to worthiness. You're born worthy, and I think that's a message a lot of women need to hear.

Every human life is worth so much.

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

Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure.

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

Human dignity is more precious than prestige.

It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.

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.

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.

Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

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

We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.

A value is valuable when the value of value is valuable to oneself.

And every human being is precious.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Each man in his way is a treasure.

Once you sell yourself, it's over. You've got nothing left.