Top 400 Admirable Quotes & Sayings

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.

There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. The person of integrity knows what to do, and does it. But as we have been exploring, there are also times when certainty and single-mindedness indicate something less admirable: a deafness to voices that should be heard or a blindness to aspects of a situation that need to be considered.

We all have a great deal of admirable qualities, and we all have some that could probably be improved upon.

It is at night that faith in light is admirable.

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

I'm stubborn, which is not necessarily admirable.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. Some people have easy temperaments and weak characters; others have difficult temperaments and strong characters. We are all prone to confuse the two in assessing people we associate with. Those with easy temperaments and weak characters are more likable than admirable; those with difficult temperaments and strong characters are more admirable than likable.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.

My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.

L'univers?je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a' une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout admirable qu'il est, ne roule que sur des choses si simples. I have come to esteem the universe more now that I know it resembles a watch; it is surprising that the order of nature, as admirable as it is, only runs on such simple things.

Education is an admirable thing.

It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.

A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

I always think it's far more admirable to confuse people than it is to reassure them.

There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people.

It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present.

You can be an American or an Englishman or Canadian and be a Parisian. It's a very admirable culture, and people want to identify with it.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.

The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's.

Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

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

What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic.

That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

Someone who plays hard every shift, it's pretty admirable for a young guy.

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts.

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method.

The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them.

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

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.

5. You feel he has a lot of admirable qualities.

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.