Quotes About Esteem

If we were living in a better age they'd build a temple around a woman like that.

She looked at me. Looked away. "You think too much of me." I smiled. "Perhaps you think too little of yourself.

Cuanto más pobre eres, más valioso es tu orgullo.

Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams decided to seek a place in the is the esteem of future generations.

As an economist, I have learned that decentralized, market-based competition – the vital core of capitalism – is the only way to deliver prosperity, but what are the founts of the other aspects of well-being? Whereas economic man is presumed to be lazy, purposive action such as work is important for esteem.

Our reputation is created out of earshot.

I wasn't crazy—I didn't see us in the same league as Zeppelin.

Everybody's intrigued by someone comfortable in their own skin because most of us aren't.

Don't be difficult, Denys," Nell chided. "All women like a little flattery from time to time." "What if they didn't? What if they simply liked themselves and no one needed to bend backwards to flatter them? Wouldn't it all be simpler then?

She was also incredibly confident, with a way of moving and talking that communicated that she didn't need anyone to tell her she was beautiful or worthwhile.

If the women in Paris were peacocks, I was a garden-variety hen.

For no life disgraced is life.—

Romantic ardor is in basic principle Lethean. Its purpose is temporarily to blind us to one another; make us forget the low esteem in which we really hold one another, and in which we quite deserve to be held; the anesthetic administered to reason without which the race would not go on.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

You could get my father to state, in all seriousness, that one of his problems is that he isn't half as pleased with himself as he has every reason to be.

When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they were animals, you too become like an animal. Or worse, because animals do not despise themselves.

He liked to believe he mattered.' Grace smiled, thinking privately, we all do.

But when Saulís servants relayed these words to David, he replied, “Does it seem trivial in your sight to be the son-in-law of the king? I am a poor man and lightly esteemed.”

Every time the Philistine commanders came out for battle, David was more successful than all of Saulís officers, so that his name was highly esteemed.

Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food.

Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.