Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"If I am not I, who will be?"
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Esteem
58 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ram Dass
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing."
Vincent de Paul
Saint, Priest
"[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity."
Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing."
Alexandre Dumas-fils
Playwright, Novelist
"Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing."
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"No one can keep you down except yourself."
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"Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other."
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"It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do."
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"Esteem never makes ingrates."
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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."
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"We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being."
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"Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself."
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"Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous."
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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?"
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"I do esteem individual liberty above everything."
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"In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing."
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"He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again."
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"Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself."
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"You your own best thing, Sethe. You are."
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"Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them."
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"Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming."
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"You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking"
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"I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love"
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"Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue."
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"We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty."
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