Best 369 quotes in «admiration quotes» category

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

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

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.

To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.

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.

The people hung upon His words - that is, until they hung Him on a cross. Admiration is fleeting. Love is eternal.

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

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

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed

We live by admiration, hope and love.

We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

Worship is admiration becoming adoration.

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

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

You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.

Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.

A Genius always admires the choices of the most Confident Fool!

A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.

A dream so beautiful, Of having you close to me, An admiration, So fondly I glee. Your eyes never met mine Your hands never wrapped my wrists! Your words never say the unknown, How it is I call you my own? This love I cherish, The seeds of which you’ve sown never. Our shortest acquaintance, Etched on my mind forever.

He bantered us, challenged us, electrified us . . . At times his eloquence held us silent as images and some witty turn, some humorous phrase brought roars of applause. At times we cheered almost every sentence, like delegates at a political convention, At other moments we rose in our seats and yelled. There was something hypnotic in his rhythm and phrasing. His power over his auditors was absolute. {Garland's thoughts on the great Robert Ingersoll}