Admiration Quotes

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

Worship is admiration becoming adoration.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

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

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

It's what you always do. You confuse love for admiration.

Do not be jealous of others' good qualities, but out of admiration adopt them yourself.

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

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.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.

Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

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

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

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.

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

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures.

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.