Top 100 Admired Quotes
#1. I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.
Elizabeth Bishop
#3. I've always admired the kind of guy who moves into a place and restores it. Thanks to my efforts, the guy who moves into mine will have a chance to do just that.
Michael Feldman
#4. Pope Francis says the name of God is mercy. Our name was mercy, too, until we put it away to become more productive, more admired and less vulnerable. We tend to forget it's still there.
Anne Lamott
#5. He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower.
Peter F. Hamilton
#6. Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram.
Fran Lebowitz
#7. I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.
Charles II
#8. [On her father's death:] Gone was the person who had known me better than anyone else on earth and who had loved and admired me unconditionally since the day I was born.
Jane Brody
#9. I was always impressed by Betty Ford and what she went through and how full of integrity she was, and how brave. I think Mrs. Reagan was a role model of my mother's generation, intelligent, very supportive of her husband. I am very different from my mom, but I admired her devotion.
Teresa Heinz
#10. People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?
Erich Fromm
#11. I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.
Jack Kirby
#12. It was a day-by-day record of a Guild much younger and smaller than the current one. After several pages, she had grown fond of the record-keeper, who clearly admired the people he was writing about.
Trudi Canavan
#13. I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.
Dee Dee Ramone
#14. Her laugh did something to him, Quill realized. Touched some part of him that admired her indefatigable spirit. Despite her discomfort and distress at being drenched, she was in possession of the sort of temperament that did not allow the petty annoyances of life to dampen her spirit.
Manda Collins
#15. Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself
Simon Hughes
#16. He snorted into his radicchio, which I admired because it was a pretty purple. The radicchio was purple, not his snort. Just in case you got confused there. I don't think it's possible for people to snort colors. We're not unicorns, after all.
T.J. Klune
#17. I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.
Nick Flynn
#18. I admired my father very much ... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
Delmore Schwartz
#19. Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
Henry Knox
#20. Plato possessed the art to dress up illiberal suggestions in such a way that they deceived future ages, which admired the Republic without ever becoming aware of what was involved in its proposals.
Bertrand Russell
#21. Cards decorated with a colorful spray of plum blossoms in the background. Yasuda admired it for a moment before putting it into his shirt pocket. I had the feeling no words we spoke could be as eloquent as this simple interaction, so I bowed to him and went on to the next man.
Arthur Golden
#22. While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#23. I always admired very much the virtuosity in Strauss because, really, he's a master of using the orchestra. And I like virtuosity, I must say, even if the taste of the music is not always mine.
Pierre Boulez
#24. A true champion is not judged by how much he or she is admired, but by how well they can stand at the face of adversity.
John Cena
#25. Born in 1910, Wilfrid Thesiger spent his childhood in Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, as it was then called, where his father was an important and much-admired British official.
Michael Dirda
#26. There was something almost regal about him, I thought; a defiance I admired. He was a holdout who refused to give up his post. The last watchman at the end of the world.
Ransom Riggs
#27. Chase was gone then, and Donnie was back, alone in his room, wondering about those pictures from an art book he'd so admired. Because it felt like he'd just lived one, and it had been beautiful, so beautiful, and he'd been able to reach out and touch the lines of it, but it still hurt.
Amy Lane
#28. The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon Edel
#29. I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
Jules Verne
#30. My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
Sandra Bullock
#31. In the high level cartoon world, my number one admired hero would be Chas Addams - really a top, top artist that the 'New Yorker' was lucky to find and employ.
Peter Beard
#32. Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.
Michel De Montaigne
#33. I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.
Robert De Niro
#34. Never contradict anybody," he was advised by Franklin, whom he admired above all men, though it was advice he hardly needed.
David McCullough
#35. Honesty is admired, and starves.
Juvenal
#38. I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.
Melanie Fiona
#39. I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.
James Fallows
#40. Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
Pankaj Mishra
#41. Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.
J. Michael Bishop
#42. The thing about butterflies, Mr. Crow, is that they need to be admired from afar.
A. Zavarelli
#43. Criticism is perhaps the citizen's primary weapon in the exercise of her legitimacy. That is why, in the corporatist society, conformism, loyalty and silence are so admired and rewarded; why criticism is so punished or marginalized. Who has not experienced this conflict?
John Ralston Saul
#44. ... I'd never have to wonder what he was thinking or feeling about me. He would be direct and honest.
In truth, I admired this about him. I wasn't nearly as fearless. By comparison, and especially with him, I was a feelings and thoughts hoarder.
Penny Reid
#45. Simplicity of appearance can cause hindrance to success when you are poor. But the same simplicity is admired in a rich and successful person.
Shon Mehta
#46. She was so stupid. Such a stupid, stupid girl.
For ever thinking she could be admired, adored, or noticed. For every thinking she could be anything at all.
Marissa Meyer
#47. Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.
George R R Martin
#48. Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.
Donn Moomaw
#49. Modeling is always something I've really admired because I've seen my mum and sister do it.
Georgia Jagger
#50. You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of books even before you could read, let you taste the magic of stories, took you to the library, and allowed you to stay up later at night to read in bed.
Jim Trelease
#52. A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired.
Adam-Troy Castro
#53. The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep
A.P. Herbert
#54. Our stars are not where we last admired them. Our homes crumble and we don't know which place to long for.
Ann Druyan
#55. Unsurprisingly, planning was most admired and advocated at the political extremes.
Tony Judt
#56. MoMA is one of the world's most admired cultural institutions.
Martin Winterkorn
#57. With him, I became utterly myself as never before - and, to my astonishment, when I looked into his eyes like mirrors reflecting myself back to me, I admired the person I beheld there.
Sherry Jones
#58. An upright man is always worth beholding - but then he is most to be admired when like a bright star, he shines in the dark, and having lost all, he holds fast his integrity.
Thomas Watson
#60. As I did, there, in perfect condition, to be admired by five sets of wondering eyes, was an enormous, glistening, moist, chocolate cake.
Brother Andrew
#61. I always admired the beautiful stars of Hollywood and dreamt of becoming one of them.
Sonam Kapoor
#62. Also, just before the shift started tonight, I had walked to the drugstore across the street [ ... ] and used one of their perfume testers. Nothing too obvious or flowery, just a body spray with a hint of musk that said you admired your captor.
Jennifer Echols
#63. Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.
Leo Durocher
#64. I've always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity.
Jim Butcher
#65. I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
Saffron Burrows
#66. Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to be liked, not feared; admired, not loathed.
Tom Shales
#67. The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.
Elmore Leonard
#68. After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.
Margaret Fuller
#69. I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.
Jennifer Donnelly
#70. I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.
Naguib Mahfouz
#71. Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.
John F. Kennedy
#72. If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.
Henry Cloud
#73. I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.
Gene Wolfe
#74. When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly'; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
Susan B. Anthony
#75. I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.
Paul Dirac
#76. I have always admired women that have a strong sense of self, complemented by femininity. I especially appreciate the presence of these women in traditionally male-dominated industries, such as real estate.
Ivanka Trump
#77. I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post,' I remained an admirer.
Kitty Kelley
#78. Malcolm X recognized that difference contains its own value, and that the struggle must be to advance that value. Martin Luther King is admired by everyone, he wants everyone to join together, but this idea that you should let them hit you on the other side of your face, this makes no sense to me.
Teju Cole
#79. I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience
Steven Spielberg
#80. There the old Eskimo hunters she had known in her childhood thought the riches of life were intelligence, fearlessness, and love. A man with these gifts was rich and was a great spirit who was admired in the same way that the gussaks admired a man with money and goods.
Jean Craighead George
#81. I have written this because it may have escaped the notice of many who have admired her [Marie Tempest] brilliant performances that they are due not only to her natural gifts ... but to patience, assiduity, industry and discipline. Without these it is impossible to excel in any of the arts.
W. Somerset Maugham
#82. I've never been in love with Marcello [Mastroianni]. I wasn't even attracted to him physically. I admired him. I followed him and supported him, but nothing ever clicked.
Giovanna Cau
#83. I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up.
Richard Elman
#84. With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything.
Bindi Irwin
#85. It was good to be admired for something. Everyone should feel that way sometimes, he thought.
Alex London
#86. I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit - I've always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you.
Anne-Marie Duff
#88. I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.
John Milius
#89. She stroked one of the geranium's petals, inhaling its particular bitter fragrance, which she admired for its bold air of unapology.
Ellen Airgood
#90. I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.
Kristin Hannah
#91. I remember going into Steve [Jobs]'s house, and he had almost no furniture in it. He just had a picture of Einstein, whom he admired greatly, and he had a Tiffany lamp and a chair and a bed. He just didn't believe in having lots of things around, but he was incredibly careful in what he selected.
John Sculley
#92. Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody's ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign of strength, and I'll show you a place where misery is permanent
Anthony Steyning
#93. It's lovely to get to say hello to people you've always admired from afar, but the fun really starts out front with people going commando whilst wearing daring mud suits.
KT Tunstall
#94. Gimignano and admired the skyline of towers. "It is a noble sight, mia bella. One day you must paint it.
Carol M. Cram
#95. She yearned to be admired, and feared to be insulted; and yet seemed tragically conscious that she was destined to miss both these extremes of sensation, or to enjoy them only at second hand in the experiences of her more privileged friends.
Edith Wharton
#96. Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.
Doris Lessing
#97. In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers.
Richard Dawkins
#98. I registered as a Republican when I turned 18 because of Ronald Reagan - he was the president at the time; I admired what he stood for. I respected him.
Brian Sandoval
#99. Men have seemed miraculous to the world, in whom their wives and valets have never seen anything even worth noticing. Few men have been admired by their own households.
Michel De Montaigne
#100. The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Jean Cocteau
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