esteeming others Quotes

The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

If you want to be deeply respected, deeply respect as many people as possible.

We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.