Quotes About Esteem

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

Those who want respect, give respect.

Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it!

So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.

It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

Respect yourself and others will follow suit. Most people will not treat you any better than you treat yourself.

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

I can't get no respect.

I would like to walk in a room and people know who I am and be like, "Oh, I respect his opinion."

I had a whole new respect for directors.

You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself.