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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.

When we encounter a person of exceptional intellectual and creative vitality, their magnetism can disorient the compass needle of admiration and attraction—it becomes difficult, sometimes impossible, to tease apart the desire to be with from the desire to be like.

‎Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

You are, I think, an evening star, the fairest of all the stars.

Yet her heart did not thirst for emotions like the hearts of sentimental women; she was not searching for a man's unique love nor for the gratification of a passion. All she required was the admiration of every man she met, acknowledgment of capitulation, the homage of universal tenderness.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

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.

Your ADMIRERS make you STRONG and courageous. Your DETRACTORS make you SUCCESSFUL.

You will meet many opponents in your time that will come face to face with your flaws, trust the chaos ~ pain & confusion is the pathway to break open and become free.

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

You dazzle me so much I find it very difficult to think clearly when we're together.

You started to feel that if he was around, then everyone else, even the landscape, was just background.

You will always be left with how you feel about other people, if you don't just take in the way you think and tell them how you feel about them.

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.

After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.

Admiration is the basis of ignorance.

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.

A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

Apparently, in the eyes of the law, my admiration of Justin Bieber is creepy.

As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.

A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

Bad artists always admire each others work.

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

Do not be jealous of others' good qualities, but out of admiration adopt them yourself.