Esteem Quotes

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

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.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

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.

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

Self esteem comes from doing something and accomplishing something.

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.