Quotes About Esteem

Until you acknowledge and value yourself. People will for life take you for granted. Yes, nobody can/will dare to look down on you until you first look down on your own self. So, if you've lost your own self esteem i.e. your worth/ability, do endeavour to find/recover it and stand up for it as well anywhere/anytime.

What it takes to prove yourself/oneself i.e. to showcase your/one's ability/potential/courage is only self confidence/assurance/esteem.

You matter, yes you heard me right. Anyone who thinks/speaks otherwise is just taking you for granted period.

You shouldn't persuade anyone to love, like and appreciate you. For, there is a tendency he or she will devalue you.

Someone we regard highly comes closer to us when he performs an action unworthy of him--thereby he releases us from the cavalry of veneration. And starting from that moment we feel a true attachment to him.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

True, I have my weak points; but were I a man, I should adore them. They arise from what is most promising in me.

È meglio godere della ricchezza dei sentimenti che del lusso dei vestiti. Non temo io, no davvero, il disprezzo di nessuno.

His quick wits, his language skills and personal knowledge of the battle arena brought him success and esteem and his abilities had not gone unremarked when, after the war, he had decided to join the police force.

don't value myself

You are a modest man; you love quiet and independence, and have a delicacy and reserve in your temper which renders it impossible for you to elbow your way in the world, and be the herald of your own merits. Be content then with a modest retirement, with the esteem of your intimate friends, with the praises of a blameless heart, and a delicate, ingenuous spirit; but resign the splendid distinctions of the world to those who can better scramble for them.

you make me feel intelligent, especially when you talk

He who exults in popular esteem has the daily burden of anxiously striving, acting and contriving to preserve his reputation. For the populace is fickle and inconstant, and unless a reputation is preserved it soon withers away.

I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

It's a great honour to be recognised and appreciated by your fellow colleagues.

It's always an honour to receive recognition, but I always consider them more important when they come from your colleagues.

I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.

Sometimes it's nice to have a little recognition.

I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.