Quotes About Esteem

The only thing I command is respect.

What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.

He told me, "You haven't earned a spot on my desk. When you do something worthwhile or impressive, I'll put your picture on my desk.

The heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. You can only acquire right knowledge when you have learnt to esteem it. Man has certainly the right to turn his eyes to the light, but he must first acquire this right.

The amount of respect you have for others is in direct proportion to how much respect you have for yourself.

I have respect for beer.

There's no shame in being second to Stephen Fry. Unless it's in a straight nose competition.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.—

Just because you have a title doesn't mean you deserve respect.

No one hath come into the world for a continuance save him who leaveth behind him a good name.*

Only the uninformed masses rave about how great you are; people who actually know what they're talking about say things like You're good or I liked your work.

Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration?

praise does not make anything better or worse.

Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration? Does gold, or ivory, or purple? A lyre or a dagger, a rosebud or a sapling?

Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it?

He claimed that a man's life should be valued according to the value of the things to which he gave his attention.

Consider the nature of all worldly sensible things; of those especially, which either ensnare by pleasure, or for their irksomeness are dreadful, or for their outward lustre and show are in great esteem and request, how vile and contemptible, how base and corruptible, how destitute of all true life and being they are.

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.

neither have I ever seen mine own soul, and yet I respect and honour it.

neither was there any man that ever thought himself undervalued by him, or that could find in his heart, to think himself a better man than he.

everyone is worth just so much as those things are worth in which he is interested.

Consider constantly what manner of men they are whose approbation you desire, and what may be the character of their souls.

This is all that I had to say about friendship; but I exhort you both so to esteem virtue (without which friendship cannot exist), that, excepting virtue, you will think nothing more excellent than friendship.

They may not like me, but they respect me. Respect is better than like.