Quotes About Esteem

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

He was attentive but impersonal, and esteemed rather than loved.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

My name has zero value.

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself.

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

I have come to esteem history as a component of friendships. In my case at least friendships are not igneous but sedimentary.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.

What women want is what men want. They want respect.

No man is a hero to his valet.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.

I definitely think that, for a woman, the biggest turn-on is the mind. Otherwise, obviously you want someone who keeps up with himself and has self-respect and self-confidence.

The people who receive the most approval in life are the ones who care the least about it--so technically, if you want the approval of others, you need to stop caring about it.

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

Ultimately everyone, no matter who you are, we all at our core want to just know that we matter.

And you look beautiful without it, but I want you to feel just as beautiful as I see you.

When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me.