Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming.
If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom. . . And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.
To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.
Since, though I do not repent my amorous exploits, I am far from wanting my example to contribute to the corruption of the fair sex, which deserves our homage for so many reasons, I hope that my observations will foster prudence in fathers and mothers and thus at least deserve their esteem.
High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.
Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem.
There are some people whom I esteem and want their opinion first, but that's my way. It is difficult for me to delegate. In the end, I do have two or three people on my team who I listen to.
I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love
Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.
[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.
You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.
Prefer not the esteem of men to the approbation of God.
The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.
There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.