Esteem Quotes
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A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
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Wedded love is founded on esteem.
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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.
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Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.
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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.
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Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.
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I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.
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If you were listening to the hypnotic voice of your Source, you'd be constantly hearing the drum beating that says, 'You are loved, and you are worthy, and you are valued and life is supposed to be good for you. You are worthy, you are valued, you are loved and life is supposed to be good for you.'
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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?
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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
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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.
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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.
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Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.
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Cats invented self-esteem.
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You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
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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!
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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.
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I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill - a skill based in self-esteem.
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We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.
