Quotes About Esteem

Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

I don't know why you are better and more beautiful than anybody else.

You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

The power of self goes beyond words. Self confidence, self improvement, self esteem, self enhancement, self love ... Get yourself right first!

When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

Remember, heads high. Smiles. They're going to love you!

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

It's hard to feel desire when you don't feel desirable

Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

If you don't have self love you can never find it outside of yourself.

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.

Without pretending to be quite sure what a skunk is," said the Duke, "I take you to be all that it isn't. And the high esteem in which I hold you is the measure for me of the loss that your death would be to America and to Oxford.

Her love for her own image was not cold aestheticism. She valued that image not for its own sake, but for sake of the glory it always won for her.

The Success-type personality is composed of: S-ense of direction U—nderstanding C-ourage C-harity E-steem S-elf-Confidence S-elf-Acceptance.

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.

Your reputation is the most important thing you'll never have. Not clothes, nor money, not the big cars you may drive. If your reputation is good, you can achieve anything you want in the world.