Esteem Quotes

1206 Esteem quotes by 749 unique authors

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real… — Charles Caleb Colton
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick,… — B. C. Forbes
It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good… — Jo Coudert
Be yourself. If you water yourself down to please people or to fit in or to not offend anyone, you lose the power, the passion,… — Don Coppersmith
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. — Louise Hart
Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that… — Don Coppersmith
At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to flare up yet… — David J. Lieberman
An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas of life. To… — Sue Thoele
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are… — Jo Coudert
I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. — Horace
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves… — Thomas Aquinas
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem. — Jonathan Swift
Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue… — Thomas Browne
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. — Plautus
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of… — Benjamin Franklin
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than… — James Russell Lowell
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What… — Eric Hoffer
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not… — Joseph Addison
self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal. — Ambrose Bierce
In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true… — George Washington
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! — William Cowper
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. — Alexander Pope
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. — Oliver Goldsmith

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