Admiration Quotes

• The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • People
  • Work
  • Adversity

• 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.

  

  William Odom
  • Countries
  • Realities
  • Societies

• Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Paradise
  • Slaves
  • Admiration

• It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reality
  • Fate
  • Unfair

• Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Real
  • Culture

• Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

  

  Apuleius
  • Admiration
  • Contempt
  • Familiarity

• What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Painting
  • Vanity
  • Resembling

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

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Mean
  • Accomplishment
  • Admiration

• If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Men
  • Sacrifice
  • Criticism

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

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Science
  • Structure

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

  

  Anthony Hope
  • May
  • Admire
  • Willing

• When somebody takes a stand for principles, no matter what side they are on, they have my admiration. And when they take a stand for principles of freedom and refusing o give up your constitutional rights, then I think the guy is kind of a modern American hero.

  

  Bill Whittle
  • Freedom
  • Hero
  • Principles

• At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and fateful laws while our hearts stand by startled and passive. We come to its assistance Recognizing one of its symptoms, we recall, we bring back to life the others. Since we possess its song engraved in its totality within us, we do not need for a woman to tell us the beginning – filled with admiration inspired by beauty – to find the continuation.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Beauty

• While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Men
  • Iraq
  • Disagree

• All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.

  

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
  • Game
  • Victim
  • Combination

• Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

  

  John D. Voelker
  • Wins
  • Fisherman
  • Stupidities

• It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Love
  • Vanity
  • Gratification

• Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Admiration
  • Tedious
  • Yourselves

• That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Admiration
  • Painted
  • Reported

• My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all true." At the same time, I could have written much more about us, but I didn't want to go any further. I did cut things out. There are certain things that I wrote about her that are so gushing with praise and admiration that when I looked at those passages I realised they would be ridiculous to anybody else.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Wife
  • Cutting
  • Ridiculous

• If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Up
  • Men
  • Distain

• The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Party
  • Sympathy
  • Drums

• The best thing about it is that she Sophia Loren is the most normal person, and I have the utmost admiration and love for her. I know that she is an icon and an absolute legend, but as a family member, the most beautiful thing is that she is really, really normal.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Beautiful
  • Members
  • Legends

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