William Shenstone Quotes

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite - inspire fear and insecurity.

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.

... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.

You should always look like a star. Otherwise people will lose a little of the esteem they have for you.

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.

You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high opinion of yourself.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

I do respect Putin. I respect a lot of people. But that doesn't mean I'm going get along with him.

There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.

If I go up to Harlem or down to Sixth Street, and I'm not dressed up or I'm not wearing my jewelry, then the people feel I'm talking down to them. People expect to see Mrs. Astor, not some dowdy old lady, and I don't intend to disappoint.

Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.

Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships

We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see

You can be very honest and direct with people, respectfully. I never do anything maliciously; I simply give my honest opinion.

If you're not careful people will judge you based on these appearances and they will pigeon hole you that this is the person that you are. Your shy, your aggressive, your this type or that type and you lose the control of the dynamic, they become the ones that determine who you are. A powerful person never loses control of the dynamic they are in someway in control.

I feel it's better to be loved and respected. If people fear you, you can get killed. If you're feared, nobody likes you. If you're feared nobody treats you the right way. You never get the right answers. You ask somebody if this is good, they'll tell you it's good even if it's bad. Nobody wants to be feared. You want to be respected.

People are constantly trying to make an image for you. They'll dress you up and tell you to pose a certain way and take all these pictures... they want a certain image, so they create that. And unless you're spending a lot of time to create another image to counteract that image, theirs will win. So right now, I'm kind of dealing with a lot of false ideas of what I'm about.

The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.