Esteem Quotes
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The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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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 -
Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
Anthony Trollope -
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
Moliere -
Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.
William Penn -
I hold my parents in such high esteem for what they do, so that, in and of itself, is a very lucky position to be in.
Zoe Perry -
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
Jonathan Swift
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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!
Emily Dickinson -
There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.
Monica Edwards -
Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the meanest and basest of His creatures?
Edwin Percy Whipple -
It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
Tacitus -
I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill - a skill based in self-esteem.
Caroline Myss
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Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
Eustace Budgell -
I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.
Moshe Katsav -
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
Norman Cousins -
Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don't really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence.
Karen E. Quinones Miller -
Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.
Karl Donitz -
A lot of men's bluster is really indicating how much the esteem of women means to them, and not how little. I was surprised, too, to find that men care as much as they do.
Norah Vincent
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The more you learn about yourself and your family tree, your self-esteem goes up. They will learn archival skills, historical analysis and science skills. You learn all this in the most seductive way, and that is through learning about yourself. Who doesn't like talking about themselves? It doesn't seem like science or history, it's just fun.
Henry Louis Gates -
At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.
Honore de Balzac -
Cats invented self-esteem.
Erma Bombeck -
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
Miguel de Cervantes