Quotes About Esteem

You admire something about another person (intelligence, emotional intelligence, physical appearance, fame, etc.).

Most people feel that they rise in their own eyes, if others want them. I feel that others live up to me, if they want me. And that is the way you feel, too, Hank, about yourself—whether you admit it or not.

la conciencia de haber ganado un lugar en un mundo al que respetaba, y obtenido el reconocimiento de personas a quienes admiraba.

Para vivir, el hombre ha de considerar tres cosas como los valores supremos gobernantes de su vida: Razón, Propósito, Estima propia. La Razón como única herramienta de conocimiento, el Propósito como su elección de felicidad que con aquella herramienta ha de poder conseguir; la estima propia como inviolable certidumbre de que su mente es competente para pensar y su persona digna de la felicidad, lo que significa digna de vivir.

you're a man whom any woman would be proud to show off as her husband.

Look, if I don't flirt with you, you should take that as a compliment. I don't always respect myself, but I almost never respect men. They're like flowers all showy, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground. But you I respect. I always did. From the first day I saw you.

You talk about her as if she is the Notre Dame Cathedral! She is. And the Statue of Liberty and Abbey Road and the best burrito of your life. Didn't you know?

IN THE WORDS OF THOMAS PAINE, "THAT WHICH WE OBTAN TOO EASILY, WE ESTEEM TOO LIGHTLY. IT IS DEARNESS ONLY WHICH GIVES EVERYTHING ITS VALUE. HEAVEN KNOWS HOW TO PUT A PROPER PRICE ON ITS GOODS.

Respect is earned.

Kahan concludes that we are all actors in a Tragedy of the Belief Commons: what's rational for every individual to believe (based on esteem) can be irrational for the society as a whole to act upon (based on reality).17

people esteem others according to how much time or money they forfeit in their altruistic acts rather than by how much good they accomplish.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Love yourself and don't settle for less than what you deserve.

I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Honor more.

My awards are lovely. I love to show them of.

The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?

The prize of all too precious you.

As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.