Esteem Quotes

• I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Love
  • Public
  • Praise

• I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Up
  • Home
  • Environment

• We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Esteem
  • Human Soul
  • Despised

• We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Refuse
  • Esteem
  • Hesitation

• There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Relationship
  • Discipline
  • Direct

• How would your life change if your self-esteem improved?

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Self
  • Ifs
  • Esteem

• The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Confidence
  • Excellence

• Post or pillar. Since their ignorance prevents them from recognizing the vicious nature of their condition, they cannot discern even the tracks of a path to deliverance. Most beings live immersed in the enjoyment of sensual pleasures. Others, driven by the need for power, status, and esteem, pass their lives in vain attempts to fill an unquenchable thirst. Many, fearful of annihilation at death, construct belief systems that ascribe to their individual selves, their souls, the prospect of eternal life. A few yearn for a path to liberation but do not know where to find one. It was precisely to offer such a path that the Buddha has appeared in our midst.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Ignorance
  • Condition
  • Pleasures

• Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Self
  • Wells
  • Self-Esteem

• That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem.

  

  Drew Chadwick Emblem3
  • Past
  • Hours
  • Boost

• Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

  

  Moliere
  • Esteem
  • Preference
  • Ceases

• Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Public
  • Esteem
  • Recompense

• Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

  

  Jules Michelet
  • Know
  • Esteem

• In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Way
  • Interest

• There are some who esteem that it is a naivety to believe that a moral regeneration may be possible; now, if this was not the case, it would not be worth the trouble that humanity continue to vegetate without aim.

  

  African Spir
  • Humanity
  • Trouble
  • Regeneration

• We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Good
  • Control
  • Motivational

• People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

  

  Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • Confidence
  • Potential
  • Esteem

• It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

  

  Thomas More
  • Invention
  • Esteem

• The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility.

  

  Ernest Walton
  • Responsibility
  • Esteem
  • Committees

• When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Break
  • Delicate

• I found the sections on aging, relationships, and procrastinating especially helpful. I really found the tips and suggestions very helpful, inspiring, positive, and motivating. Yes, I would definitely recommend it.

  

  Karen Lewis
  • Suggestions
  • Sections
  • Procrastinating

• Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Pride
  • Destruction
  • Aim

• Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

  

  William James
  • Religious
  • Facts
  • Temper

• There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Littles
  • Deceiving

1

2

3

4

5

previous

next