Best 369 quotes in «admiration quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Worship is admiration becoming adoration.

Paine was a grand fellow — high—with the most splendid sense of justice. But he was a reasoner — not warm — not letting out the natural palpitating passion... which perhaps he didn't have. But I see all that and more in Ingersoll. His imagination flames and plays up, up, up. It is a grand height! And he has so sharp a blade, too; is many-sided, gifted for great effects in different spheres. I don't suppose we ever had a man here so well adapted to that work. {Whitman's thought on Thomas Paine and his good friend, Robert Ingersoll}

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.

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

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

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}

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 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 had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. {Edison's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll}