Esteem Quotes - Page 24

• You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?

  Nathaniel Branden

  Love You, Winning, Expectations

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Liberty, Individual, Maximum

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

  Moliere

  Respect, Preference, Cease

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2000). “The Misanthrope and Other Plays”, p.200, Penguin UK

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• We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

  Eric Hoffer

  Change, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Design

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.365

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• To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Mother, Daughter, Beach

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• The one and only Gospel waits to be proclaimed by everyone together, in love and reciprocal esteem.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Waiting, Together, Reciprocal

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• Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, War, Fighting

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• There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest, is some pledge for grateful and benevolent returns. Ingratitude is a common topic of declamation against human nature; and it must be confessed, that instances of it are but too infrequent and flagrant both in public and in private life. But the universal and extreme indignation which it inspires, is itself a proof of the energy and prevalence of the contrary sentiment.

  James Madison

  Grateful, Inspire, Honor

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.281, Coventry House Publishing

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• The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

  Richard Winters

  Self Esteem, People, Rejection

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• Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good in ourselves. We would cease to be so critical of our weaknesses and would find ways to allow our weaknesses to become strengths with God's help.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Honesty, Self Esteem, Weakness

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• The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Integrity, Self Esteem

  Twitter post from Apr 22, 2015

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• The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

  Laozi

  Love, Jewels, Clothes

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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• Your self-esteem has never been hurt before, right? Don't be so full of yourself then.

  Kim A-joong

  Hurt, Self Esteem, Drama

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• There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.

  Monica Edwards

  Self Esteem, Cat, Beloved

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• The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.

  Bhikkhu Analayo

  Honesty, Self Esteem, Deception

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• I am in no position to judge other women, you know. But I mean, why did she get pregnant? It's not good for women to go through the procedure of abortion and have something living sucked out of their bodies. It belittles women. Even though some women say, 'Oh, I don't mind to have one,' every time a woman has an abortion, it just crushes her self-esteem smaller and smaller and smaller.

  Dolores O'Riordan

  Crush, Self Esteem, Mean

  You! magazine, June/July 1996.

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• If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.

  Portia de Rossi

  Self Esteem, Insecure, Avid

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• You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Believe

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Humble, Men, Christian Inspirational

  "Gleanings Among the Sheaves, The Right Estimate". Book by Charles Spurgeon,

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• The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Integrity, Self Esteem, Effort

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• People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.

  Bell Hooks

  Self Esteem, Integrity, People

  bell hooks (2003). “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous. I pretend to no such advantage in the philosophy I am going to unfold, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious.

  David Hume

  Strong, Pain, Philosophy

  David Hume (1874). “A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.306

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• Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.

  William Temple

  Father, Inspiration, Heaven

  Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift (1757). “The Works of Sir William Temple Bart,: Complete in Four Volumes Octavo. : To which is Prefixed, The Life and Character of the Author”, p.429

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