Admiration Quotes

Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

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.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

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.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

I learned from admiration and osmosis.

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.

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.

Express your admiration for the traits, possessions or accomplishments of your customer. Little things mean a lot.

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.

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

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.

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.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen

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

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.

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.

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night.

Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.

The older you've gotten, the more respect and admiration you've received.

The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.

Our bodies are temples of the Lord. We should earn respect and admiration for our hearts, not for showing skin to look sexy.

I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands.

Santiago Martinez Delgado made a Master piece in the Colombian Congress building worthy of admiration.

I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.

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

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.

On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have done so.