Admirable People Quotes

#1. Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.

Mariane Pearl

#2. I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people.

Jon Voight

#3. There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

William Stafford

#4. At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only into a perfect match, but into stronger, better, more admirable people.

Sarah MacLean

#5. I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought ... I thought ... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

Michael Palin

#6. Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman I knew, who would never say 'the weather grew cold,' but that 'winter begins to salute us.' I have no patience for such coxcombs ...

Dorothy Osborne

#7. It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.

William Penn

#8. We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person.

Warren Buffett

#9. People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.

Zac Posen

#10. Bad as "independence" is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System - an admirable system if conducted in the public interest - is that too much power and control rests in the hands of people whose private interests are directly affected by the Federal Reserves' actions.

Wright Patman

#11. I really enjoy working with people who have come into this industry for what I think are really admirable reasons. People who really want to tell brilliant stories and do it in the most effective way possible.

Emily Berrington

#12. It's admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat.

J.M. Coetzee

#13. Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Bertrand Russell

#14. I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.

Lee Myung-bak

#15. His deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait that; in a spaniel. Or a whore.

Michael Dobbs

#16. There is nothing admirable about being obedient to a system that doesn't serve you. The present system we endure day in, day out is designed to turn us against each other while a minority of people get rich off our backs, destroying the planet in the process.

Rupert Dreyfus

#17. I know most people want others to have good lives, and, when they understand the situation, they will do what they can to steer the world back toward kindness. This is when human beings, I believe, are most admirable.

Daoud Hari

#18. There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

#19. Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Jonathan Sacks

#20. No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

Jock Sturges

#21. So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.

David Krumholtz

#22. People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Helen Hayes

#23. People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit - and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre

#24. Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.

William Penn

#25. Judi Dench has always been the benchmark for me. Everything I have seen her do is incredible. I also really admire Cate Blanchett. In terms of people I have worked with, there is no one more admirable than Hugh Jackman, for his spirit, energy, generosity and hard work.

Laura Donnelly

#26. Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.

Nicholas Sparks

#27. I always think it's far more admirable to confuse people than it is to reassure them.

Will Sheff

#28. Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

Primo Levi

#29. I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.

Bertrand Russell

#30. He had always seen his self-sufficiency as an admirable quality, a way of not imposing upon other people, but he could see now that it was an insult to those close to you.

Mark Haddon

#31. The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

Jacques Maritain

#32. A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

Anita Brookner

#33. There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief by well-intentioned people.

Mitch Kapor

#34. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife ...

Homer

#35. Vuillard balances too far on the side of fantasy ... the people in his pictures are not properly defined. As he's an admirable draughtsman it must be that he just doesn't want to give them mouths and hands and feet.

Paul Signac

#36. If a leader demonstrates competency, genuine concern for others, and admirable character, people will follow.

Richard Chase