Admirable Quotes

Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.

I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.

Someone who plays hard every shift, it's pretty admirable for a young guy.

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.

My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.

Education is an admirable thing.

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment.

I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.

The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's.

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard.

I always think it's far more admirable to confuse people than it is to reassure them.

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.

There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.

I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness.

Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.

It's not the beauty of a person you should admire. It is the purity of heart that deserves your admiration.

Am I as admirable as that ant?

Lonely you linger in a league above poetry.

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.

On Perseverance – Persistence is admirable. Stubbornness is stupid. Just remember: the latter two even begin with the same three letters.

'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to that classic.