Best 280 quotes in «admire quotes» category

People don't admire you for what you hate, they admire you for what you do about it, and your slacks.

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.

Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else.

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

Seek out a person whom you admire and respect for the support you need - that we all need from time to time.

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.

That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.

That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.

The actors I admire are character actors.

The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.

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

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 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

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.

The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

We admire the castles, because we admire the security!

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

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.