Top 1200 Esteem Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

Self-esteem is not based on itself.

I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up.

Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

Cats invented self-esteem.

Man is symbolic to the sun. The sun is dealing with a ball of fire and didn't go out yet. Me being symbolic to the sun, that's what keeps me going, that's like my hunger. That's like my fury, my self esteem. That's the elements within me that keep my body motionable. The fire is self esteem. Inner strength.

Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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

She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

For all true love is grounded on esteem.

Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil.

I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

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

The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation.

Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem.

I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.

Self-esteem does not mean feeling good all the time. Self-esteem means loving yourself even when you feel badly...even when you make a mistake. It means loving yourself even when you're depressed. It means that you accept yourself fully.

Self-esteem should not be confused with self-confidence. Self-confidence is believing in your competence and your ability to do something, whereas self-esteem is believing in your goodness.

The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

I think self-esteem comes from work.

Esteem all things that are good.

When you strengthen your self-esteem, there is no room for jealousy.

All true love is grounded on esteem.

I've suffered from low self-esteem.

Self-esteem can’t win you a race if you’re not in shape.

I had low self-esteem.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.

I've had a lot of self-esteem issues.

Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.

So many comics have such low self-esteem.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

It's amazing to me that journalists are held in such low esteem.

Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

I'm not saying that I don't have skills. I'm saying I don't feel like I can use my skills to achieve self-esteem. I feel like it's cheating. I think that I should have self-esteem simply because I am a human being who deserves love and deserves everything just as much or just as little as everyone else.

Wedded love is founded on esteem.

Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.

I was a talented egomaniac with a self-esteem problem.

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.

I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love

Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy.

Esteem never makes ingrates.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

Calculus destroys self-esteem on contact.

You realise fame is something that if you court it too much or if you indulge in it too much, it will have a negative effect ultimately on your mental health and self esteem, because fame is ultimately about achieving positive self esteem through external factors, and that's a losing game, I would say.

Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.

If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.

I wasn't supported, I wasn't given any self-esteem.