Esteem Quotes
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Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.
Emily Bronte -
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
William Hazlitt
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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
Ram Dass -
The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.
George Washington -
I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.
Kate Bosworth -
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Jonathan Swift -
All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.
Aristotle -
When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really are the center of the Universe.
Esther Hicks
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He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
Emily Bronte -
I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.
Neil Diamond -
Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.
Brian Tracy -
The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
Patrick Stewart -
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!
William Cowper -
Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
Bette Midler
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The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.
Lao Tzu -
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
William Cobbett -
You should always look like a star. Otherwise people will lose a little of the esteem they have for you.
Norma Deloris Egstrom -
It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.
Brian Tracy -
I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.
William R. Alger
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The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.
Brian Tracy -
Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.
Plato -
If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.
Martin Luther -
If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.
Napoleon Bonaparte