Esteem Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

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.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

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 is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

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.

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.

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

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.

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.