Quotes About Esteem

Men might be better if we better deemed of them.

Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

I've always been a proud man.

Barack Obama is a man of great dignity.

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

I guess men like me - somebody out there must think I'm hot.

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]

Prefer not the esteem of men to the approbation of God.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.

I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.

Looking good Matt, you look like a money.

It's really amazing what a money reputation will do for your social standing.

As our net worth falls, so does our self-worth. Ironically, it's when we don't have it that we most feel we have to flaunt it.