We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.
We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.
All true love is grounded on esteem.
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.
When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.
You're not free, unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.
I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
Love is like a flower, and like the body, it needs constant feeding. . . And with love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness.
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Every man should esteem his neighbor as himself.
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.
Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.
Until you value yourself, you can't expect anyone else to do so.
Don't let anything morph you or push you around or have you be something you're not.
I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.
The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths, which people can experience as successful. You cannot restrict esteem to the fewer and fewer who will be climbing up the management ladder. You need to have the majority of your people feeling like winners.
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.