Best 369 quotes in «admiration quotes» category

The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.

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

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

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 are charms made only for distant admiration.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

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.

We live by admiration, hope and love.

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 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.

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.

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.

Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

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

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

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

Worship is admiration becoming adoration.

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

Robert G. Ingersoll was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the earth -- and yet we have no right to bow down to his memory simply because he was great. Great orators, great soldiers, great lawyers, often use their gifts for a most unholy cause. We meet to pay a tribute of love and respect to Robert G. Ingersoll because he used his matchless power for the good of man. {Darrow's eulogy for Ingersoll at his funeral}

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}

He is a type of our best — our rarest. Electrical, I was going to say, beyond anyone, perhaps, ever was: charged, surcharged. Not a founder of new philosophies — not of that build. But a towering magnetic presence, filling the air about with light, warmth, inspiration. A great intellect, penetrating, in ways (on his field) the best of our time — to be long kept, cherished, passed on... It should not be surprising that I am drawn to Ingersoll, for he is 'Leaves of Grass.' He lives, embodies, the individuality I preach. 'Leaves of Grass' utters individuality, the most extreme, uncompromising. I see in Bob the noblest specimen —American-flavored—pure out of the soil, spreading, giving, demanding light. {Whitman's thought on his good friend, the great Robert Ingersoll}