Best 280 quotes in «admire quotes» category

The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most

The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.

The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.

There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.

There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

The work of Liszt I most admire is the music he wrote toward the end of his life. This is often music of tremendous inventiveness. The music seems to be seeking something. It tends to be restless, unpredictable, often very sad.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

We must make humility the chief thing we admire in Him.

Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.

Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.

We admire the castles, because we admire the security!

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.

What each man honours before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.

We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.

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

What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each story or novel, he shows me something different within the framework he's built - like noticing that there's a chair in the corner I didn't see in another story.

Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.

You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

When you recognize God as Creator, you will admire Him. When you recognize His wisdom, you will learn from Him. When you discover His strength, you will rely on Him. But only when He saves you will you worship Him.

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly!

When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

You can be totally involved, you could admire just the shape of or you could be totally emotionally mushed up into the dance.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

You will never go wrong in concluding that a man has once loved deeply whatever he hates, and loves it yet; that he once admired and still admires what he scorns, that he once greedily desired what now disgusts him.

Audiences will admire your character’s strength but connect with them through their weakness.

An adventure is nothing but a story. After the adventure ends, it’s nothing but a memory; a shadow of a life you lived. People will envy you for the time it takes you to tell the story. But after that, what then? I think people admire you more for becoming a teacher. I really do.

A spark of every fire we seek is already within us.