Esteem Quotes

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. (Marcus Aurelius)
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. View quote
George Washington
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem. View quote
Kurt Cobain
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish. View quote
Sam Walton
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. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
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. View quote
William Hazlitt
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company. View quote
George Washington
Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem. View quote
Elizabeth Bowen
As love without esteem is volatile and capricious; esteem without love is languid and cold. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master. (Alexandre Dumas, fils)
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. View quote
Joseph Addison
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. View quote
William Temple
They please, are pleas'd they give to get esteem, Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem. View quote
Jules Verne
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. View quote
Nathaniel Branden
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly disco. View quote
Albert Einstein
But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. View quote
Robert Sternberg
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly. View quote
Elihu Root
Methought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain. (Samuel Pepys)
What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love? View quote
John Adams
If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. View quote
Thomas Paine
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. View quote
Ron Paul