Admiration Quotes - Page 2

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.

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.

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.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

We always like those who admire us.

Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

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.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

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