Quotes About Esteem

The best conduct a man can adopt is that which gains him the esteem of others without depriving him of his own.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons. To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

If you wish to learn and appreciate something worth while, then love to be unknown and considered as nothing. Truly to know and despise self is the best and most perfect counsel. To think of oneself as nothing, and always to think well and highly of others is the best and most perfect wisdom.

To have no opinion of ourselves, and to think always well and highly of others, is great wisdom and perfection.

is truly great who deemeth himself small, and counteth all height of honour as nothing.

To think of oneself as nothing, and always to think well and highly of others is the best and most perfect wisdom.

Whenever a new scholar came to out school, I used to confront him at recess with the following words: 'My name's Tom Bailey: what's your name?' If the name struck me favorably, I shook hands with the new pupil cordially; but if it didn't I would turn on my heel, for I was particular in this point. Such names as Higgins, Wiggins, and Spriggins were deadly afronts to my ear; while Lapgdon, Wallace, Blake, and the like, were passing words to my confidence and esteem.

Oh Lord, how heavy thy honor is to bear.

Neither do I think that I ever put any dishonour upon you.

It's good to know people think I'm a nice guy.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

If no one hears you, and no one listens to you, it doesn't matter how good you are because no one cares about you.

One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.

no he encontrado entre lo poco que poseo nada que me sea más caro o que tanto estime como el conocimiento de las acciones de los hombres

He who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against

She didn't like to be read so easily but she couldn't help respecting someone who could.

Once you lose someone's respect it is the hardest thing to win back

Is there anything more attractive than a polite person with limitless self-belief? There is not.

I don't believe something's important simply because I'm told it's important; and the inverse, perhaps more crucially, is also true: something isn't unimportant simply because it's been largely overlooked by others.

We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are wonderful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Nothing so cuts the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

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