Quotes About Esteem

and in general it was a great pleasure all the time I staid here to see how I am respected and honoured by all people; and I find that I begin to know now how to receive so much reverence, which at the beginning I could not tell how to do.

I don't know how a woman can have such a poor view of herself as to show off poor stitching.

Not everyone knows how to handle your fragile "package" with care. Know your worth.

Well," he said, "I'm guessing your client is either a magician or a pervert. And I mean both of those terms with the highest respect.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

God did not have time to make a nobody, so you're a somebody.

This is the time to speak the word of appreciation.

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

You will come to learn, as we have in our long lives, that what is given freely is often despised. It is only when we pay for something that we treasure it.

Because he doesn't know he carries within him a supreme elegance, I say it for him.

THE PERFECT YOU "Again—nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.

Pride. You have it where you can have it.

At the root of real honor is always the sense of the sacredness of the person who is its object.

In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value.

Esteem for the army - never in this country regarded, in the continental manner, as a popular expression of the national will - implies a kind of innocence.

The ultimate significance in life comes not from something external but from something internal. It comes from a sense of esteem for ourselves, which is not something we can ever get from someone else. People

CHAPTER XIX 'WHO VALUED THE GEESE?

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.

Honour and a good reputation are very pleasant, because the individual imagines himself a good man, and his estimation of his worth increases the more he can trust the people who are saying this about him —

You have to respect yourself before you can command a guy's respect.

It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing.