Best 369 quotes in «admiration quotes» category

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.

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

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.