Esteem Quotes

“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
― Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

“A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.”
― W.H. Auden, Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations

“We may well value our minds and esteem our brainpower. But let us respect our feet as well. They might be down-to-earth for sure, but do allow us to go forward and steam ahead in life. On top, they can kick out anyone disrespectful and mind-numbing. ("If he doesn't play ball")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself.”
― Benilde Little, Acting Out: A Novel

“The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Each person is worth the value put on them by the affection of others, and that is where popular wisdom has found that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
― Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro

“Sur quelque préférence une estime se fonde,
Et c'est n'estimer rien qu'estimer tout le monde.”
― Molière, The Misanthrope

“Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.”
― Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success

“The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“The most destructive thing we can possibly do in life is to make another person doubt his worth and identity as a child of God. The very most productive thing we can do is to help ourselves and others realize that as children of God, our worth is infinite.”
― Toni Sorenson

“Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave?”
― Roman Payne

“As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.”
― Jonathan Swift

“Putting someone down with name calling reveals your own low self-esteem.”
― Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem

“Therefore, before taking any important decision in life, it is necessary that you discover your true values first.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Endow yourself with healthy self-esteem. What is the feeling tone in your life that radiates in you and makes you shine, that makes you feel whole, that makes you feel your heart? That feeling tone, which we long to hear from others, is the tone we want to practice with ourselves. That’s where we want to live with ourselves. It doesn’t happen from the outside in. That’s why it’s called self-esteem.”
― Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

“It is seldom possible to respect someone about whom you know everything.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We hate admiring someone we hate.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her. Respect, esteem and confidence had vanished forever; and all his views of domestic happiness were overthrown.”
― Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice

“Esteem needs. Maslow classified these into two categories: Esteem for oneself (dignity, achievement, mastery, independence). The desire for reputation or respect from others (e.g., status, prestige). Maslow indicated that the need for respect or reputation is most important for children and adolescents and precedes real self-esteem or dignity.”
― Ross Edgley, The Art of Resilience

“The gods, in kindness to mankind, have put in most men’s hearts the wish to be loved and honored, even when they greatly wish for power. Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.”
― Mary Renault, The Praise Singer

“Reinventing myself is a result of not appreciating myself. As such, that kind of reinvention needs an intervention.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“After all, he liked me. That was a claim he could never fail to honour because it astonished him.”
― Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear

“Treasure Trove

In the end
Those that don't value us should only teach us how to value ourselves more
And those that don't honour or esteem what they should hold close to their hearts
Do so because they have lost a piece of their own heart...
They have forgotten their own value”
― Christine Evangelou, Diamonds Through The Dark: The Poetry I Am in Love, Faith and Fire

“Trying to focus your energy on identifying the things that are within your control and seeing what you can do about them help building self-esteem and confidence.”
― Abhishek Ratna, small wins BIG SUCCESS: A handbook for exemplary success in post Covid19 Outbreak Era

“A woman of merit and worth need not knock off another's crown to feel highness.”
― Sai Marie Johnson

“Or recall a time in your own past when you stood up to a bully. If you know people who know how to handle your Tank, imagine being those people and thinking or feeling whatever it is they feel or think that allows them to be more effective. Identify models of people who have the self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-control to deal calmly and professionally with pushy people. For example, imagine what it would feel like to be Clint Eastwood, saying, “Go ahead. Make my day.” Whichever of these methods you use, make it a mental habit to rehearse dealing with your Tank at least a few times, until you feel comfortable with the prospect of using it.”
― Rick Brinkman, Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst

“As fine a man as ever who broke a cake of the world’s bread,” John Noseworthy often said of the captain.”
― George Loh, Sailor's Choice

“A small bubble of self-esteem percolated up from my depths.”
― Jo Ann Beard, The Fourth State of Matter

“Give respect to get respect. Self-respect sets the standard for how others treat you. Value yourself, and insist on the same from everyone else.”
― Life is Positive