Moral Worth Quotes

Everybody is worth everything.

On the whole, it is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Money is not a measure of a man's character or success in the arena of public service.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

All men are equal; it is not their birth, but virtue itself that makes the difference

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need

The value of a life is determined by what we give away.

On this earth there is that which deserves life.

Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

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.

I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

Existing legal discriminations on account of color are not based on character or conduct, and have no relation to moral worth and fitness for civic usefulness, but are rather relics of prejudice which had its origin in slavery. I recommend their total repeal.

There is a proud modesty in merit.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

Nothing about life is sacred until we make it so.

All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God.

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.