Quotes on Esteem

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence.

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

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

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

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance of it shall never be a crime in my view, nor bring injury on the individual. I never will by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance. I never had an opinion in politics or religion which I was afraid to own; a reserve on these subjects might have procured me more esteem from some people, but less from myself.

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.

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.

A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to spend our lives doing the things we believe are most important to us.

When you undervalue who you are, the world will undervalue what you do and vice versa.

Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

Accept that you are enough. You don't need to be anything that you are not.