Quotes about Esteem
We applaud patience but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.
- NT Wright
The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
- Peter Drucker
Every time the Philistine commanders came out for battle, David was more successful than all of Saul’s officers, so that his name was highly esteemed.
- 1 Samuel 18:30
and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken.”
- 2 Samuel 6:22
Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”
- Esther 6:6
For Mordecai exercised great power in the palace, and his fame spread throughout the provinces as he became more and more powerful.
- Esther 9:4
What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
- Job 7:17
Prize her, and she will exalt you; if you embrace her, she will honor you.
- Proverbs 4:8
Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food.
- Proverbs 12:9
No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.
- Isaiah 32:5
Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
- Isaiah 66:2
How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
- Lamentations 4:2