Quotes About Esteem

Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.

I don't want the attention. I want the respect.

Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.

I have tremendous respect for women.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Have respect for yourself and no one can take away your self respect.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

Class is an intangible quality which commands, rather than demands, the respect of others.

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.

I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.

Respect a man, and he will do all the more.

The respect you give others is a dramatic reflection of the respect you give yourself.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

I want to keep playing at the kind of level where I'll get respect from everybody.