Being Admirable Quotes

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

Jock Sturges

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

Michael Palin

#3. This seemed to drive home the basic principle that perspective and distance affect perception.

Jennifer Coburn

#4. Varzo looked with shame at her boots. "Look, I wasn't serious, alright? It was just a thought."

Mercy shook her head. "Shitty thoughts become shitty actions, kid. You really gone your entire life without recognizing there's ah link between the two?

Ash Gray

#5. 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

#6. I hope that I have gained the reputation of being someone that would do anything. I think that that's an admirable reputation to have if you're an actor.

Joe Lo Truglio

#7. There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

Andre Gide

#8. McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.

Jim Cantalupo

#9. Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.

Matthew Shultz

#10. Anybody who thinks factory jobs were good jobs needs to go visit somebody on a line," she said. "Most people wouldn't survive in a factory. Mitt Romney would die in a week.

George Packer

#11. I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.

Martha Stewart

#12. 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

#13. Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.

Martha Stewart

#14. Love doesn't go away just because you realize you can't be with someone

Lexi Ryan

#15. I suspected the movies, considering her cheap crack about me being a ten-cent Clark Gable, which was ridiculous. He simpers, to begin with, and to end with no one can say I resemble a movie actor, and if they did it would be more apt to be Gary Cooper than Clark Gable.

Rex Stout

#16. I couldn't help myself as the words tumbled out. It was a sickness.

Penny Reid

#17. There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

Will Oldham

#18. The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#19. An admirable idea! Mr. Worthing, there is just one question I would like to be permitted to put to you. Where is your brother Ernest? We are both engaged to be married to your brother Ernest, so it is a matter of some importance to us to know where your brother Ernest is at present.

Oscar Wilde

#20. Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

Sidney Nolan

#21. One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored.

Robert Audi

#22. A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking somebody in the eye, shaking hands and being friendly under duress.

Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

#23. Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement

Michael Josephson

#24. Come now, my dear fellow. Expertise is none the less admirable for being of an unsavoury variety.

Lyndsay Faye

#25. It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was.

Charles Dickens

#26. Be loved for who you are, for everything that constitutes you. Be loved for your core beliefs, your strengths and weaknesses, your admirable traits and troublesome baggage. Be loved for you, because anything less is not love at all.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#27. On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Carter Burwell

#28. Being sensitive and kind are admirable pursuits ... and so are knowing when you're being taking advantage of and simply walking away.

Charles F. Glassman

#29. Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

John Locke

#30. There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

A.J.P. Taylor

#31. When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

Orrin Woodward

#32. No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?

Henry David Thoreau

#33. What is so admirable in being ruled by a need for peace of mind ?

John N. Gray