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Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. -- Blaise Pascal
Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success. -- Bryant H. McGill
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals. -- Bruce Beresford
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. -- Alvin Toffler
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -- Winston Churchill
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -- Joseph Chamberlain
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom. -- Thomas Traherne
I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today. -- Bruce Sterling
A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion. -- Jakob Bohme
Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father! -- John Pearson
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. -- John Adams
As a longtime fashion enthusiast and the architect of the YMCMB lifestyle, it makes perfect sense to partner with the esteemed Bravado and move into fashion and launch my apparel brands. -- Birdman
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
The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed. -- Townsend Harris
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune. -- Daniel Boone
Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others. -- David Brainerd
The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as happy, but he struggled in both his artistic and romantic exploits against the piousness of his father, an esteemed Harvard professor. -- Billy Collins
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. -- Thomas More
The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. -- Ellen Key
A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness. -- Charles Spurgeon
I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism. -- Rush Limbaugh
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. -- Abraham Lincoln
In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be. -- Bill Gross
Would you be esteemed? live with persons that are estimable. -- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women. -- Walter Raleigh
Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature. -- John Dryden
Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies. -- Plutarch
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them. -- Norm MacDonald
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. -- Horace
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. -- Carl Jung
It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence. -- Edward Gibbon
There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. -- William Hazlitt
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered. -- Giovanni Ruffini
A prince is also esteemed when he is a true friend and a true enemy. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit. -- Richard Chenevix Trench
Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. -- Alexander Hume
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers. -- Charles Darwin
The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance. -- Oswald Chambers
Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. -- Jane Austen
Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them. -- Saint Francis de Sales
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed. -- Petronius
The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. -- Henry David Thoreau
The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth. -- Ignatius of Loyola
Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned. -- Baruch Spinoza
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. -- Francis Bacon
My lectures were highly esteemed, but I am of opinion my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it. -- Astley Cooper
I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent! -- Ira Carmen
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. -- Thomas Jefferson
Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others. -- Plutarch
It is only those who are lightly esteemed that can make unexpected impact. They are the ones we have been waiting for. -- Paul Bamikole
We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are. -- Nicolas Malebranche
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success. -- Joseph Joubert
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation. -- Samuel Johnson
Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions) -- Nigel Short
Yes, Consul. The next time one of our esteemed members turns into a worm and eats another esteemed member, we will inform you immediately. -- Cassandra Clare
I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today. -- Bruce Sterling
It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there. -- Herman Melville
Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds. -- Socrates
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature. -- Benjamin Franklin
The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the "best" sources. -- Walter Karp
The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest. -- Martin Luther
Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others. -- Thomas Hobbes
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world. -- H. L. Mencken
It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations. -- Thomas Sprat
For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable. -- Ken MacLeod
The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind. -- David Hume
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger. -- Thucydides
It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure. -- Izaak Walton
I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause. -- Cole Younger
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it. -- Edward Forbes
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means. -- Ben Jonson
Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies. -- John Piper
No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave similarly in that their most esteemed members berate its poorest members. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating. -- Jennifer Weiner
Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness. -- John Tillotson
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman. -- Plato
Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others. -- Winston Churchill
For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor. -- Philip Sidney
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. -- Blaise Pascal
You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.... -- Bryan Stevenson

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