Quotes About Who You Admire

#1. It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don't know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it's a great feeling.

Benicio Del Toro

#2. Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?

Gustave Flaubert

#3. Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.

Mandy Moore

#4. We all need to have heroes, people to admire and look up to. To find a hero, first look to your parents or older brother or sister. Then look to the people who share the same morals and values that you have, and have accomplished the goals that you strive to achieve.

Robert Cheeke

#5. You had to admire a guy who wanted to keep you from death.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#6. One thing I can say right off the bat is that creating great editorial is a huge challenge, and you can't help but go through the process and not appreciate how valuable this skill is, and how much I admire the people who do this every day.

Michael Wolf

#7. 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

#8. We all have our own paths. That's the important thing of this movie. God's waiting there for everybody. Be true to who you are and true to your values - not to media, not to the influence of friends necessarily or people even that you admire. Be true to your heart and you'll find that path.

Corbin Bernsen

#9. Death is the future of everyone, but he who detests death is a failure in life, but he who admonishes it is an achiever

Michael Bassey Johnson

#10. Aspire to be who you most admire

Deborah A. Carr

#11. Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

Blaise Pascal

#12. The wise will admire you. The wishful will envy you. The weak will hate you. This is the reality for those who dare to be epic.

Steve Maraboli

#13. I don't think there's any better education than learning the intimate details of the lives of people who you most admire.

Brandon Stanton

#14. 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

#15. I want to be the guy who the guy you admire admires. I hope his name is Guy, because I admire M.C. Escher.

Jarod Kintz

#16. The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern's
Classic Tale of True Love
and High Adventure
You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.

William Goldman

#17. 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

#18. Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

Julie Christie

#19. I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

Rupert Friend

#20. Do not trust everyone who smiles at you;
some admire your achievements,
but some misunderstand them,
and many more envy them.
Jealousy is like the sky:
everywhere on everyone.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

Ayn Rand

#22. I admire actors for their infinite patience. That's why they need all those trailers and all their crowd of people who pamper them. But it is a drag to get up sometimes at 4:30 in the morning and get into makeup, and wait forever until they call you onto the set.

Roman Polanski

#23. Pop Salvation is a genius take on discovering who you are by becoming what you most admire. If I didn't know better, I'd think Lance Reynald watched me grow up. Marvelously endearing and insightful.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#24. All musical talent is absent in me, to the point of being unable to play board games that require you to hum a tune while others guess what it is, since all my humming sounds the same. Musical instruments have always seemed like alien artifacts to me, even as I really admire anyone who can play one.

Jeff VanderMeer

#25. Do not be interested in the quantity of people who respect and admire you, but in their quality. If bad people dislike you, so much the better. - LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA

Leo Tolstoy

#26. I admire from a distance. Too close and the flaws form a craterous landscape and the charm is lost. Who do you think I am, Neil Armstrong?

Jarod Kintz

#27. When you have little children, you want to tell them about joy and happiness and hope. And then comes the time you want to tell them there are tough moments. I admire people who can do that.

Peter Sis

#28. Who you are doesn't cease to exist because there's nobody there to admire it.

Heidi Priebe

#29. There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

Mary Ellen Mark

#30. It's a cliche, but John Lennon is my hero. He was so rebellious, so outspoken and so publicly opinionated, and I'm someone who's so private. I suppose you admire people who have the qualities you wish you had.

Emun Elliott

#31. Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.

Stacy London

#32. How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

Tom Robbins

#33. You praise man who has the ability to perform great actions.
I admire man who can deal with great pain and knows no despair.

Toba Beta

#34. You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

Rose Leslie

#35. What a reflection on yourself to despise those who admire you! That said, one's usually of two minds: 1. You're ludicrously overdoing it; 2. You don't know the half of it.

Eva Brann

#36. Have you heard about the women who stabbed her husband 37 times? I admire her restraint.

Roseanne Barr

#37. I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.

Ken Livingstone

#38. 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

#39. [Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?]
Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too.

Audrey Niffenegger

#40. I admire actresses who are good to women. I don't like the ones who just don't like women. You can feel it. They're degrading themselves.

Sandra Bullock

#41. What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

Oscar Wilde

#42. Sometimes when you're treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined. I admire that kind of strength. People who have it take a stand and put their blood and soul into what they believe.

Michael Jackson

#43. You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.

Martial

#44. 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

#45. I can tell you the actor who I admire the most. Billy Crudup. Do you know who he is? He's awesome.

Jonathan Tucker

#46. 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

#47. This is where I tell you that I admire you. I admire people who give a damn. The world needs more adults willing to spend time with kids, particularly teenagers.

John A. Heldt

#48. I'm more influenced by people's attitudes and spirits than by their particular style. Whether it's Elsie de Wolfe or Pauline de Rothschild, I always admire women who had a vision and stuck to it. Because ultimately, the way you live has to be a reflection of you.

Charlotte Moss

#49. Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.

Albert Camus

#50. You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.

William Goldman

#51. I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

Warren Buffett

#52. But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

Jostein Gaarder

#53. To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.

Delphine De Girardin

#54. And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

Jane Austen

#55. When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are.

Nicolas Roeg

#56. 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

#57. On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

Penelope Fitzgerald

#58. When people who don't know you well admire you, they are seeing their projected illusion, not your real self.
In contrast, when people who know you well respect you, it is probably because you deserve it.

Haemin Sunim

#59. I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.

Stephen Fry