Quotes with esteem

  • 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.
  • Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
  • It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - and in my esteem age is not estimable.
  • 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.
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  • Thomas Paine What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Abel Stevens A woman... always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.
    Abel Stevens
    American Methodist clergy (1815 - 1897)
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  • Kurt Cobain All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem.
    Rolling Stone Magazine, 16-04-1992
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Benjamin Whichcote Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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  • Naomi Campbell Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
    Naomi Campbell
    English model (1970 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • John Hawkesworth As love without esteem is volatile and capricious; esteem without love is languid and cold.
    The Adventurer, No. 36 (10 March 1753)
    John Hawkesworth
    English writer and book editor (1715 - 1773)
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  • George Washington Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Sir William Temple Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Irving Layton Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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  • Alice S. Rossi Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.
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  • George Washington Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Brian Tracy Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Edward F. Halifax Esteem to virtue is like a cherishing air to plants and flowers, which maketh them blow and prosper.
    Works (1912)
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Thomas Szasz Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Abraham Lincoln 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.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Eric Hoffer Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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