A Quote by Thomas S. Monson

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

Thomas S. Monson

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Thomas S. Monson
American - Priest
August 21, 1927 - January 2, 2018

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.

Rick Yancey

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Rupert Brooke

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

Phil McGraw

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

Frank Herbert

Those from whom we were born have long since departed, and those with whom we grew up exist only in memory. We, too, through the approach of death, become, as it were, trees growing on the sandy bank of a river.

Bhartrhari

I admire vegetarians who refuse to eat nothing but vegetables in their homes, but I also admire those who put aside those principles or those preferences when they travel. Just to be a good guest.

Anthony Bourdain

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Napoleon Hill

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

Charles Baudelaire

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.

Warren Buffett

Every attempt to reflect upon the Atonement, to study it, to embrace it, to express appreciation for it, however small or feeble it may be, will kindle the fires of faith and work its miracle towards a more Christlike life. It is an inescapable consequence of so doing. We become like those things we habitually love and admire. And thus, as we study Christ’s life and live his teachings, we become more like him.

Tad R. Callister

There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As for generals, there are those I admire as combat leaders and others I admire because they're great fun to write about.