Top 69 Quotes About Person You Admire
#1. I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life.
Rob Lowe
#2. 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
#3. Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.
Larry Winget
#4. First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.
Meek Mill
#5. It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
Patricia McBride
#6. Taylor Swift - I can't say enough good things about her. I admire her so much as a person and as a role model for young women.
Martha Hunt
#7. 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
#8. So if a person produces an object on command, Humboldt wrote, we may admire what he did but we will despise what he is, not a true human being who acts in his own impulses and desires.
Noam Chomsky
#9. I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.
Orhan Pamuk
#10. One evening, after my wife and son had gone out for a walk, I decided to have a talk with my neighbor, who I believe was murdered. I had gotten to know and admire him by listening to people talk about him. He seemed a wonderful person with much to give.
Poe Ballantine
#11. You can tell a person's morale from their Twitter feed. I like that; it's so honest. And I like being able to follow people who I respect and admire, and the possibility of them seeing my comment about them.
Jessie Cave
#12. I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by a Person whom I admire so much that to be unconditionally accepted by Him is to be born again.
Robert H. Schuller
#13. We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
William Feather
#14. The kind of person that I admire most would be one who becomes extraordinarily good at doing a lot of things but still maintains a tear-stained countenance.
Kai Bird
#15. We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.
Alexander Lowen
#16. I admire self-awareness more than probably any other quality, and I think in terms of what qualities are "good" in a person, it's a mostly subjective opinion, so I can't see a reason to think that self-absorption is inherently a bad thing.
Marie Calloway
#17. You may be a person I admire, but you can't be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone's favourite, but you are someone's favourite whether you like them or not.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#18. When someone says, 'I admire your character,' I never know whether the person is talking about my ethics or referring to someone in one of my books.
Stifyn Emrys
#19. The friends I have, and the people whom I admire, are people who have an understanding of the conditions under which we live, and have a humanist sense of the world. If that's lacking in my understanding of a person's negotiation of the world, I can't be close with that person.
Claudia Rankine
#20. That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.
John Gray
#21. I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society.
Sasha Azevedo
#22. Seek out a person whom you admire and respect for the support you need - that we all need from time to time.
Quentin Bryce
#23. I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me. I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society - which is true in all his books.
Alan Lightman
#24. Evil genius! I so admire that in a person. Usually I'm the evil bitch of the group
Maya Banks
#25. I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can't look at one person's life and say, "I want that life." I want to make my own history.
Blake Lively
#26. I'm more of a dog person. But I admire cats and their ability to take so much while giving so little.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#27. I don't admire the person who hides from the world and claims enlightenment. To be purified you have to be tested and there is no better test of strength than dealing with other people.
Donna Lynn Hope
#28. I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.
Katherine Dunham
#29. As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.
Evangeline Lilly
#30. If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll find a person who does not think of what they do as just their job
Alexander Isley
#31. When the suggestion was made that I might consider doing music of Joni Mitchell, I thought it was a fantastic idea. Joni, I admire not only for her music but for her person, because she's a person that really stands out for what she believes in.
Herbie Hancock
#32. You have a questing mind. I admire that. Until our underground discovery, a person who sought answers was considered a waster; one who sought questions, a fool.
Anonymous
#33. Remember that you don't have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for that person. All you have to do is wish for that person to be happy.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
#34. 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
#35. I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.
John Shelby Spong
#36. When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.
John C. Maxwell
#37. I'm excited about the new judges on 'American Idol.' Jennifer Lopez was a real mentor to me my season and I admire her so much. And I kind of have a crush on Steven Tyler. It's going to be interesting to see is one person going to stand out among the judges or if everyone will sort of be equal.
Jordin Sparks
#38. There is a certain kind of dignity we admire, and to which we aspire, in the person who refuses to meet anger with anger, violence with violence, or hatred with hatred.
Desmond Tutu
#39. I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#40. Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty.
Vironika Tugaleva
#41. I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.
Shakira
#42. I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.
Ratan Tata
#43. I tried but I can't admire or respect actors. How can a person be so much in love with just looking good? How much emptiness must an actor have to keep looking at himself/herself in the mirror and put on make-up to come in front of the camera?
Avijeet Das
#44. Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.
Evangeline Lilly
#45. Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire
Elbert Hubbard
#46. The person that I most admire is Jesus Christ. He is the only perfect Person. There is simply no comparison. The difference between Him and all other men is not merely quantitative, but qualitative. He is in a category all to Himself.
Paul Washer
#47. I really do admire you a bit. You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it. - Colonel Korn
Joseph Heller
#48. Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.
Ann Brashares
#49. All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.
Asa Don Brown
#50. Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.
Abel Bonnard
#51. I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.
Scott McClellan
#52. Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
Allegra Huston
#53. We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.
Daniel Libeskind
#54. I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Every actor has a reason for being an actor ... it's boring to play the same person over and over again. People like Daniel Day Lewis, who completely transform time and time again, I look up to.
Joe Dempsie
#55. But to admire a strong person
and to live under that strong person's thumb are
two different things.
George Bernard Shaw
#56. She is like me.
Silent.
I admire that in a person. The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence.
Introspection requires you to think and analyze.
It's hard to do that when you are blabbing away.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#57. Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.
Richard Carlson
#58. I don't admire how much a person has, I admire what a person does with what they have and I think that defines you most.
Aeriel Miranda
#59. I just admire a funny, confident, sassy woman and hopefully I'm that person.
Denise Bidot
#60. Many of the differences that cause students to be excluded in school are actually the same qualities or skills that other people are going to admire, respect or value about that person in adulthood.
Alexandra Robbins
#61. I met Charlie Trotter before I actually saw him in person; I was 24 when I first opened the pages of Charlie's cookbook 'Charlie Trotter's' and was greeted by a man I would know and admire for the next 20 years.
Marcus Samuelsson
#62. It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human.
Kate Jacobs
#63. I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.
Warren Buffett
#64. If you can find one thing a day to smile about (even a remembrance), or one thing to laugh about (not at someone else's expense) then you are the type of person I admire.
Karen Wallen
#65. I admire John Boehner greatly. He's a great public servant. I think people are going to miss him in the long run because he's a person that is focused on solving problems.
Jeb Bush
#66. Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#67. I look at my sons' little faces, and I want to be their superhero. I don't want them to have to look outside to a third party for a hero, for someone to look up to and admire. I want that to be ME. I want that person to be MOMMY for them.
Lashinda Demus
#68. I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.
Jane Pauley
#69. I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'
Jo Brand
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