#esteem

I'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She needs to be accepted for who she is so badly. And I was able to do that. Do you know good that felt? To be able to show someone that, yes, you are someone worth sacrificing for? That you like them for their faults and that you respect them for their ability to rise above them? ↗

— Kim Harrison

#acceptance-of-others #friendship #friendship-true-and-loyal #inspirational #love

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#esteemed #friend #friendship #left #life

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#esteem #highly #man #wish #would

I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#children #churches #esteem #every #gathering

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#box #create #did #done #esteem

I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#early 20s #had #i #into #issues

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem. ↗

— Greg Louganis

#destroy #different #gay #great #growing

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum. ↗

— Elaine MacDonald

#communication #communication skills #confidence #curriculum #effectiveness

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#esteemed #greater #hearts #loyalty #men

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing. ↗

— Moliere

#everyone #founded #high #hold #must