Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Better to be disliked than pitied.

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

Anyone that hates on you is always below you, because they're just jealous of what you have.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well.

You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.

Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.

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

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.

I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

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

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

It is important to gain respect rather than sympathy.

Every one thinks highly of his own

I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't know think in the sense that I want them to think and understand me in a certain way. I don't base my life around either one, and I don't change the way I live to please either set of people, but I do care.

I'm just trying to enjoy the fact that I have gained some respect from some people whom I respect.

You can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are better than others, and you can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are less than others, either.

I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.