It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation -- to force the esteem of others -- seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.
God wants us to prosper. Our need, however, is to evaluate things as they should be evaluated - to esteem earthly things lightly - to put first things first.
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.
The power of self goes beyond words. Self confidence, self improvement, self esteem, self enhancement, self love. . . Get yourself right first!
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.
What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?
In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming into the slightest conflict with his religious convictions. The mighty common struggle which both carried on against the destroyer of Aryan humanity had, on the contrary, taught them mutually to respect and esteem one another.
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.
Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.
Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!
All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.
Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem.
If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.
If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into the bodily appetite. Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. The one is, perhaps, the most refined passion of the soul; the other the most gross and vulgar. The love of beauty is placed in a just medium betwixt them, and partakes of both their natures: From whence it proceeds, that it is so singularly fitted to produce both.
[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.
Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.
He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.