Top 100 Quotes About Admiration
#1. Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
Horace
#3. Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.
Julie Burchill
#4. Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Bertrand Russell
#5. And in repose one might have admired so fine a specimen of English manhood, until the foppish ways, the affected movements, the perpetual inane laugh, brought one's admiration of Sir Percy Blakeney to an abrupt close.
Emmuska Orczy
#6. A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious ... When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought to command the admiration of every friend to human nature. But if sullied by crimes and extravagancies, it loses its respectability.
Alexander Hamilton
#7. There's a limit to enduring admiration being a substitute for love.
John Irving
#8. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
Hermann Hesse
#9. Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired itself? Remember that anybody can be an admirer; but the difficult thing is to be the admired one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. I watched as she, with a half-life-worth of anger and resolve, flickered into this dark night and tried with all her might to get back what was taken from her.
Mo Daviau
#11. Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
William Lyon Phelps
#13. Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.
Josh Billings
#15. Tottenham Hotspur has a huge following across the world and I have great admiration for the passion the fans show for this team. We are determined to give the supporters the kind of attacking football and success that we are all looking to achieve.
Mauricio Pochettino
#16. All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#17. There are things a person does without any reason, without any second thought, maybe they do not hold grudges for long, maybe they just forgive, and there is something strange about that type of person. I admire them.
Shaikh Ashraf
#18. The rancor I once bore recedes, supplanted by admiration and a sense even of loss at the mates we might have been and the times we might have shared.
Steven Pressfield
#19. My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top.
Kevin Spacey
#20. Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some
Jane Austen
#21. My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.
Brian D'Arcy James
#22. Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.
Jack Gantos
#23. Columbia students called me a baby killer, but remained silent for Ahmadinejad. I'm not sure if that was out of fear for the Iranian president or admiration.
Matt Sanchez
#24. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]
Winston S. Churchill
#25. What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?
Dorothy L. Sayers
#27. Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
Karl Barth
#28. We should not center our lives on receiving praise and admiration. If we are secure in our faith, our identity will be based on the love of God, not the opinion of others.
Patti J. Smith
#29. Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when
The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,
Her ashes new-create another heir
As great in admiration as herself.
William Shakespeare
#30. Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.
Eliza Haywood
#31. When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
John Dryden
#32. What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Joseph Priestley
#33. There were people who were born with an inability to be tangled up in dark emotions, in complications, and Iloba was one of them. For such people, Obinze felt both admiration and boredom.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#34. You're a peach full of poison, you know that? Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.
Frances Hardinge
#35. In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men
genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.
Thomas Carlyle
#36. He was unique to her among men because he's impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who's nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man.
George Eliot
#37. Mark Twain on George Ade's writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand.
George Ade
#39. Apparently, in the eyes of the law, my admiration of Justin Bieber is creepy.
Kim Kardashian
#40. A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.
Nelson Rodrigues
#41. I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.
Shana Alexander
#42. I don't admire the person who does what they want to do. I admire the person who does what they're afraid to do.
Donna Lynn Hope
#43. I have to make decisions that people are a little confused about, in a way, and I just express the appreciation, admiration and respect I have. I just try to be the best I can, but I'm human.
Selena Gomez
#44. Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.
Richard Rohr
#45. How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
Blaise Pascal
#46. With an expression that could be mistaken for fear, Detective Duke shivered, but not of terror, more so a shiver of admiration. This was his first encounter with angels. In humility, he hid his face from them.
T.K. Ware
#47. But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe they have lost it, remaining, even after the very traces of it have vanished, as greedy as ever of admiration.
George MacDonald
#48. As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
Baruj Benacerraf
#49. To find true love simply one must just adore.
Will Advise
#50. I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#51. She had an incredible amount of admiration for these talented men who dedicated themselves to training and practicing and honing their skills in order to be part of one of the most elite fighting forces in the world.
Laura Griffin
#52. I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands.
Scoot McNairy
#53. The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.
Ben Bernanke
#54. It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.
Jo Coudert
#55. Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.
Mark Twain
#56. People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
Barbara Mertz
#57. Character - We describe the character of a person in reference to moral judgments about the worthiness of a person. Thus, to have a strong, great or honorable character is to be a person of merit, worthy of admiration and honor.
Michael Josephson
#58. It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#59. Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration?
Marcus Aurelius
#60. I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.
Christiane Amanpour
#61. I like your hair down." He twisted his fingers through the curls.
My eyes drifted shut as I relaxed next to him. "It's a mess. I need to get a haircut."
Hayden's fingers stilled. "No. You shouldn't cut your hair. It's beautiful."
I would never cut my hair. Ever.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#62. When leaders are worthy of respect, the people are willing to work for them. When their virtue is worthy of admiration, their authority can be established.
Huananzi
#63. I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady.
Cassandra Clare
#64. For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.
Natalie Merchant
#65. No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane Austen
#66. Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
William Hazlitt
#67. For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.
Maurice Ravel
#68. Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman's make-up kit. It has the power to transform the appearance and mood of the person wearing it, and, at the same time, arouses the admiration of everybody else.
Monica Bellucci
#69. It is the presumed mission of all women, a quest for a man, and no amount of bloodshed can dissuade the myth. For a boy, people would say to her soon, in disbelief or even in admiration, and they would be all wrong.
Daniel Handler
#70. Ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl ... I have ever met since ... I met you.
Oscar Wilde
#71. A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#72. I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
Jack Gleeson
#73. The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ's church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be remarkable enough to cause grudging admiration, astonished curiosity or threatening hostility.
Edmund Clowney
#74. If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.
William Godwin
#75. If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#76. As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value.
Samuel Johnson
#77. Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration.
Thomas De Quincey
#78. Commonplace," said Holmes, though I thought from his expression that he was pleased at my evident surprise and admiration.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#79. No disrespect' is a world away from respect--and admiration.
Susanne Dunlap
#80. I have to extend my admiration and respect for Sam Esmail, who is a visionary with what he's done with 'Mr. Robot,' and this brilliant resurgence of Christian Slater only helped us get where we are today - very talented individual.
Rami Malek
#81. Joanna's quietly intent nature contrasted sharply with Holly's vibrancy. While Miss Brewster's flirtation stroked his ego, the spiritual maturity Miss Robbin's exhibited commanded his admiration and respect.
Karen Witemeyer
#82. I have the greatest respect and admiration for Congressman Issa, but I don't intend to be Darrell Issa-like.
Jason Chaffetz
#83. Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.
Anatole France
#84. Choices turned to consequences, opinions turned to judgments, and admiration turned to envy. Envy curdled everything, like lemon in milk.
Lisa Unger
#85. His effect on men is one of interest and curiosity, not of admiration and loyalty. His power is the power of gifts, not character. Men watch him, but do not follow him.
William Manchester
#86. Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt
#87. The whole thing that makes a mathematician's life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
Donald Knuth
#88. It is only a woman who can make a man feel like a 'superhero' or 'inadequate'.
Its her attention and admiration that a man desperately seeks!
Sanjai Velayudhan
#89. And they soon drew from those inquiries the full conviction that one of them at least knew what it was to love. Of the lady's sensations they remained a little in doubt; but that the gentleman was overflowing with admiration was evident enough.
Jane Austen
#90. I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.
Anthony Bourdain
#91. Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves.
Martin O'Malley
#92. Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false theories. Forward steps in art are governed by the law of attraction, are the result of imitation of and admiration for beloved predecessors.
Boris Pasternak
#93. The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes' investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now he was overcome with admiration, and ready to follow without question wherever Holmes lead.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#94. It does not take the striking pose of a high-fashion model or the strict stance of someone in uniform to earn respect and admiration.
Cindy Ann Peterson
#95. I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some effection, but with Montana it is love.
John Steinbeck
#98. Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.
Bret Harte
#99. The poor man's son, whom heaven has in its anger visited with ambition, goes beyong admiration of palaces to envy. He labours all his life to outdo his competitors, only to find the end that the rich are no happier than the poor in the things that really matter.
Adam Smith
#100. Your skill can never buy you love. It may win you admiration and envy, but never love. If that was what you were after, you have wasted your time.
Patricia St. John
