Quotes About Esteem

A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey.

An interesting note to this is, how a movie star projected onto the big screen is instantly adored and revered. This phenomenon works in reverse. Those who are held in high esteem are given gigantic proportions. Those who are given gigantic proportions are held in high esteem.

since dispassionate self-knowledge is not a quality held in much esteem by the majority of the human race

If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

If you're not feeling good about you, what you're wearing outside doesn't mean a thing.

You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

I think you're very special. I think you are probably one of the most special people at our school, and I wish more people knew that about you. Or maybe I don't, because sometimes it's nice to be the only one who knows something.

If someone is giving you a compliment, I don't think they should have to tell you they're giving you one; it should probably be obvious to the person receiving it.

I can't look like a cheap-ass in front of my boys.

Concept of Others As "identity diffusion" describes the borderline's lack of a stable concept of self, "object inconstancy" describes the lack of a stable concept of others. Just as his own self-esteem depends on current

every one praises most what is within his reach

A woman who is desired by someone else, even a love-starved coffinmaker, immediately becomes more precious than before. Man, as it happens, lives by relative rather than absolute values.

ALFRED ADLER (in Ansbacher, 1946, p. 358) "The supreme law [of life] is this: the sense of worth of the self shall not be allowed to be diminished.

A valuable thing too is never to let anyone know how fine you thought anyone else ever was because they know better and no one was ever that splendid.

Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.

The fact that I despise religion doesn't mean I don't esteem it highly.

The problem was that the Duke wanted status not a job, to be recognised rather than to contribute.

The value system at Intel is completely the reverse. The Ph.D. in computer science who knows an answer in the abstract, yet does not apply it to create some tangible output, gets little recognition, but a junior engineer who produces results is highly valued and esteemed. And that is how it should be.

A simple test can be used to determine where someone is in the motivational hierarchy. If the absolute sum of a raise in salary an individual receives is important to him, he is working mostly within the physiological or safety modes. If, however, what matters to him is how his raise stacks up against what other people got, he is motivated by esteem/recognition or self-actualization, because in this case money is clearly a measure.

A woman accentuates her beauty for her own self-esteem.

It was as you said: what you used to be means more to people than what you are.

E per chi ti trucchi così, eh?" "Per me. Una donna mette in risalto la propria bellezza per stare bene con se stessa.

You must not think my father valued me at less than a king's ransom; but, at no more than a king's ransom.