Associates Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

— Jean de la Bruyere

We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

— Luc de Clapiers

Men aren't allowed to have self-esteem, because we're already supposed to have all the power… But most men earn less than they want, barely…

— Tim Allen

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

— Mary Renault

Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable.

— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

— Horace

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

— Marilyn French

The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they…

— Merle Shain

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued.

— Aung San Suu Kyi