Moliere Quotes

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

Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it.

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something that will seem to have been of value when they die.

When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.