Quotes About Esteem

if you keep a distance to get a respect, keep a distance to keep the respect

Don't overestimate everyone else and underestimate yourself

The low profile of a man does not mean he is nobody

Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.

You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.

Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

Women love a self-confident bald man.

If many people love me, then I must be important.

Because he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around.

If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.

I am not plain, but I don't think anyone is ever going to call me beautiful. I don't have that graceful thing going on.

These, indeed, are no proper addition to his divine excellencies. Christ has no more excellency in his person, since his incarnation, than he had before; for divine excellency is infinite, and cannot be added to. Yet his human excellencies are additional manifestations of his glory and excellency to us, and are additional recommendations of him to our esteem and love, who are of finite comprehension.

Is it right for God to be pleased when others hold him in contempt? Is it fitting that he be joyful when his created beings despise him? Of course not! To the contrary, it's fitting and proper for God to be displeased when his created beings hold him in contempt. But this means that it's also fitting and proper for him to be pleased when appropriate love, esteem, and honor are given to him.

The ultimate good is to treat something according to it's true value.

If we spend our lives in the pursuit of a temporal happiness; as riches or sensual pleasures; credit and esteem from men; delight in our children, and the prospect of seeing them well brought up, and well settled, &c.--All these things will be of little significancy to us. Death will blow up all our hopes, and will put an end to these enjoyments.

You look good. Not because of that designer bag you carry, That designer bag looks good because of you.

She had a pretty name but she knew she wasn't pretty.

Thus, those with long and glittering careers (e.g. me) tend to look down on those (e.g. Ascobol) whose names have been unearthed more recently, and haven't amassed so many fine achievements.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

As Winston Churchill said, "Dogs look up to you, Cats look down on you." It's just that I discovered that being looked at from both of those perspectives is where I want to be.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

Il est notoire que les hommes les plus remarquables sont aussi les plus modestes, les moins soucieux de l'opinion qu'on a d'eux.