Love comes slow, but God does it go fast. He was…

“He who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against”

— Nicolo Machiavelli

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well…

— Michel de Montaigne

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without…

— Jakob Bohme

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what…

— Cole Younger

Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.

— Plutarch

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

— Samuel Johnson

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with…

— Mary Shelley

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more…

— Jennifer Weiner

Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it…

— Thomas Hobbes

The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance.

— Oswald Chambers

That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The military is the most esteemed American institution.

— Brianna Keilar

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

— Horace