Admiration Quotations | Page 3

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

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

Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.

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

Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.

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.

Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.

How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

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

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

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

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

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.

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

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

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.

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

Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.

Admiration is the basis of ignorance.

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

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

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

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

You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one

Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

If what most men admire, they would despise, 'Twould look as if mankind were growing wise

When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator

Season your admiration for a while.

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of being we ascend

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

Bad artists always admire each others work.

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

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.

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.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

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

As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value.

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

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.

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

We live by admiration, hope and love.

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed