Esteem Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

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

— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted.

— Martin Seligman

“A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.”

— Stephen Richards

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

— Moliere

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

— Jane Austen

Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.

— Ayn Rand

“The practice of assuming authority figures know best what one needs, for example, is a mark of someone whose self-esteem is vulnerable.”

— Marsha Sinetar

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

— Jules Michelet

“There’s a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don’t need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.”

— Harriet Lerner

High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve.

— Jack Canfield

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

— Nathaniel Branden

“If you want self-esteem.” “Do estimable acts” ~ V, from A Piece of Cake: Memoir”

— Cupcake Brown