Admiration Quotes
And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.
Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.
Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.
Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.
I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.
If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.
One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.
There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.
I can't express how much admiration I have for women in general, who walk around in high heels, but, drag queens, oh my god.
You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.
I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.
But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.
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.
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
I am faithful up to the point of death. It's the only thing I respect. I never abandon anyone. I'm not talking about sexual relations. I'm faithful in my friendship, my admiration.
I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.
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.
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.
Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.
Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.
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.
sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.
How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!