Esteem Quotes - Page 40

• The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

  William Cowper

  Friendship, Men, Needs

  'Friendship' (1782) l. 169

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• The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for someone's approval. Within you is a void that should have been filled by self-esteem. When you attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead, the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows stronger. The only solution is to summon the courage to honor your own judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Eye, Acceptance

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled at his adolescent self, a self he feels was unacceptable. With bravado, he expresses regret that he didn't rack up more sexual conquests in his teens; in person, he expresses a truer regret that he was intimidated by life itself.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Mother, Regret, Self Esteem

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• Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.

  Angela Cartwright

  Self Esteem, Kids, Rejection

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.

  Susan Fiske

  Goal, Hierarchy, Typical

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• In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such enviable qualities as having strength under control, being calm and peaceful when surrounded by a heated atmosphere, emitting a soothing effect on those who may be angry or otherwise beside themselves, and possessing tact and gracious courtesy that causes others to retain their self-esteem and dignity. Instead of losing, the gentle gain. Instead of being ripped off and taken advantage of, they come out ahead!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Self Esteem, Taken, Thinking

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• Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valour men hold in such high esteem.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Courage, Men, Roots

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• Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Tears, Seduction

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.242, Wordsworth Editions

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• We particularly like people who value us highly.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  People, Values

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• Surfing frees everything up, it's just the best soul fix. Life should be stress-free, and that's what surfing is all about. It's something you do in your sleep, with your eyes closed; it's something you'll constantly embrace and be passionate about, and whatever it takes, you're gonna do it, because nothing else in the world can give you that kind of self-esteem.

  Rell Sunn

  Self Esteem, Stress, Sleep

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• I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.

  Steve Albini

  Fashion, Self Esteem, Thinking

  "The Verge Q+A: Punk Pioneer Steve Albini on Music Festivals, The Future of Radio and Why He Wants GQ To Fail". Interview with Aaron Lake Smith, www.gq.com. September 29, 2010.

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• The process of setting a goal, learning the necessary steps to achieve it, and giving it your best until you've mastered it will generate high self-esteem and pride. Those are feelings associated with joy.

  Jude Bijou

  Self Esteem, Pride, Giving

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• It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Respect, Self Respect, Difficult

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• We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Office, Affection

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.220, Delphi Classics

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• If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Retirement, Humble, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

  Gloria Steinem

  Self Esteem, Luxury, Factories

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.

  Fergie

  Self Esteem, Self, High Self Esteem

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• Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.

  Robert Breault

  Self Esteem, Humble, Humility

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• The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Home, Writing, Suicidal

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Living Novel”, p.115, A&C Black

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• Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Greatness, Men

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• The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Yesterday, Society

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• To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Conquer The World, Arms, Earning

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.288, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.

  Michael Josephson

  Sex, Self Esteem, Names

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• If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Self Esteem, Men, God Love

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• It's all about self-esteem now. Build the kids' self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves. If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who's gonna dance in our strip-clubs?

  Greg Giraldo

  Growing Up, Self Esteem, Kids

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