Quotes About Esteem

A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.

Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

Vic pointed at him, two finger-guns of approval. "I like a man who knows the value of words, doesn't spend 'em too cheap." Ranulf nodded. "That is the manner in which I roll.

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that ... I was worthy of being number one to a man.

You're not such a dog as you think you are.