Quotes About Esteem

There isn't a soul on the planet who doesn't crave your approval.

The odds are, you highly underestimate how awesome you are. Stop doing that.

If you cannot find and appreciate the beauty of your own thoughts, how can others appreciate you?

Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.Read it over.Again.Let those words resonate in your mind.

Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.

Be a person of value, but never try to define your worth.

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

He had been so friendly, and he had shown clearly that he did not think me in the least stupid--or, if he did, he liked it.

J'aime en lui sa beauté, sa grâce tant vantée, Présents dont la nature a voulu l'honorer, Qu'il méprise lui-même, et qu'il semble ignorer.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Dignity is particularly important.

In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.

I'm basically one of the best people I know.

We always overrate the man who stands.

My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin. The Jewish community of Sighet held him in highest esteem; his advice on public and even private matters was frequently sought. There were four of us children. Hilda, the eldest; then Bea; I was the third and the only son; Tzipora was the youngest.

you are worthy and lovable, just as you are, on your own.

People like to be addressed specificlly, it makes them important.

So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

Never show how smart you are, dears, or someone will envy you.

The value and rank of a learned man is more than his knowledge.

There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals.