Quotes About Esteem

If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.

I like women who are okay with who they are.

What is important is that I am respected both on and off the field by cricketers and fans.

Everyone has an ego. Even someone that doesn't play one minute has an ego.

It's essential to feel beautiful to oneself. Not in an egotistical way, but in a self-loving way.

The most desirable man in my opinion is Sidharth Shukla and among women, I think of myself as being desirable.

Jeeves,' I said - and I am not ashamed to confess that there was a spot of chokiness in the voice - 'there is none like you, none.

Roland did not like being thought a worm, but it was infinitely better than being regarded as an interesting case by the house-surgeon of a hospital. He belonged to the school of thought which holds that it is better that people should say of you, There he goes! than that they should say, How peaceful he looks.

I have always considered you an extremely sound young potato.

I have named you queen. There are taller ones than you, taller. There are purer ones than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier.   But you are the queen.

I'd rather be looked over than over looked. -Star

Always walk around like you have on an invisible tiara.

Know your worth, girls. You're not lucky to be at the party; the party is lucky to have you. Apply as needed to relationships, jobs, and family.

William James said, "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." He didn't speak, mind you, of the "wish" or the "desire" or the "longing" to be appreciated. He said the "craving" to be appreciated.

PRINCIPLE 6 Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely.

John Dewey, one of America's most profound philosophers, phrased it a bit differently. Dr. Dewey said that the deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important." Remember that phrase: "the desire to be important." It is significant. You are going to hear a lot about it in this book.

There is an old saying: 'Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him.' But give him a good name – and see what happens!

PRINCIPLE 7 Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.

The desire for a feeling of importance is one of the chief distinguishing differences between mankind and the animals.

To change somebody's behavior, change the level of respect she receives by giving her a fine reputation to live up to. Act as though the trait you are trying to influence is already one of the person's outstanding characteristics.

Save someone's face once and your influence with him rises. Save his face every time you can, and there is practically nothing he won't do for you.

wanting to look good to others is also a form of the desire of the eyes.

Their desire for such honor was keeping them from believing, because you cannot hold the esteem of others to that degree of importance and at the same time believe that God is who he is. It is not possible. As long as people are hung up on honor from other people—reputation, appearing well—they cannot truly believe and trust God.

that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.