ESTEEM

Related Subjects: Admiration, Appreciation, Honor, Judgment, Popularity, Respect

1. The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.—ADDISON
   

2. The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.—BURKE
   

3. Then take what gold could never buy—
   An honest bard's esteem.—BURNS, To John McMurdo
   

4. Esteem cannot be where there is no confidence; and there can be no
   confidence where there is no respect.—HENRY GILES
   

5. Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship and even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ingrates.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

6. We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.—PASCAL
   

7. Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sen­tences from others.—PLUTARCH, Lives