Quotes About An Admirable Person

#1. I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.

Kristen Stewart

#2. Kiss me, Ben," I said. "Properly.

S.J. Watson

#3. I made dangerous choices in those years, thinking myself bold and adventurous. Later I would come to understand that I hadn't been daring at all, just driven by confusion and hormones. The person capable of true daring, I knew now, possessed two admirable qualities: curiosity and courage.

Alice Steinbach

#4. Faith is an admirable trait. It's good to have faith in another person. But when faith is used as a substitute for reality, then it becomes a crutch for refusing to deal with that reality.

Peter David

#5. 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

#6. What could be less than to afford Him praise,
The easiest recompense, and pay Him thanks?
How due! Yet all His good proved ill in me
And wrought but malice. Lifted up so high

John Milton

#7. Your life, your achievement, your happiness, your person are of paramount importance. Live up to your highest vision of yourself no matter what the circumstances you might encounter. An exalted view of self-esteem is a man's most admirable quality.

Ayn Rand

#8. 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

#9. Solidarity was admirable; loyalty was the person standing next to you when the devil came to call.

Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#10. Kelly closed his eyes and began to bargain with God.

Z.A. Maxfield

#11. 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

#12. English is now ours. We have colonized it, too.

Gemino Abad

#13. I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

Anna Paquin

#14. 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

#15. It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.

Lemony Snicket

#16. Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#17. This is another way in which he is an admirable person. If he notices something is broken, he will try to fix it. He won't just think about how unbearable it is that things keep breaking, that you can never fucking outrun entropy.

Jenny Offill

#18. Apparently things are looking very good, except that the whole situation might collapse from one moment to the next.

Anonymous

#19. When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age ... The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

Victor Hugo

#20. Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

Natasha Trethewey

#21. Jenny decided that all manifestations of her innocence were futile and appeared defensive.

John Irving

#22. Everyone knows dogs. Most people love dogs. I think most American families probably have a dog, but I don't think people really realize or understand just how wonderful and special dogs are.

Robert Crais

#23. I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.

Cynthia Voigt

#24. Developing and having a positive outlook is never a coincidence; it's a choice. You can choose to look horrible or admirable; that is no business of another person. The mind is the distillery, where all choices are brewed.

Israelmore Ayivor

#25. Hell freezing over?
I don't know. But the devil's definitely wearing a sweater.

J.R. Moehringer

#26. Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

Harry Hamlin

#27. It was just a different kind of battle, one he'd have to learn to win

Cinda Williams Chima

#28. Then, you were always captivated by self-sacrifice. However admirable, your eagerness to give your life over to another person may have been due in some measure to the fact that when your life was wholly in your lap you didn't know what to do with it. Self-sacrifice was an easy way out.

Lionel Shriver

#29. True love is actually very hard to understand ... Everybody is looking for love, everybody is fighting for love ... But because they can't bear to say it outloud, they express it through songs

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