Esteem Quotes

If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.

Until you value yourself, you can't expect anyone else to do so.

If I am not I, who will be?

Be the winner in your life!

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

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

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

We particularly like people who value us highly.

All true love is grounded on esteem.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

Esteem all things that are good.

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

No one can keep you down except yourself.

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

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

Esteem never makes ingrates.

For all true love is grounded on esteem.

It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.

Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

Don't let anything morph you or push you around or have you be something you're not.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.

I am convinced that what has the greatest meaning for us is what we uncover for ourselves.

Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream, to get in touch with yourself...To putter is to discover.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

The one and only Gospel waits to be proclaimed by everyone together, in love and reciprocal esteem.

Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.

Respect starts with ourselves.

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

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.

You're not free, unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.

Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself.

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

I wish I had more confidence.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests

Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Prefer not the esteem of men to the approbation of God.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.