Contempt Quote by Eric Hoffer Download Open image “Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.” — Eric Hoffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contempt Self esteem
Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn’t. — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as the barometer,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your promises. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Fact: When somebody smells good, it automatically makes them more attractive. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them. — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party, has contempt.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
