Top 400 Admirable Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when you're the underdog.
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.
I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that.
I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.
An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos.
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.
So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.
Republican government presupposes decent and admirable qualities among its citizens - so we should be serious about strengthening character and inculcating virtue.
As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.
The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America.
Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.
Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.
Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.
To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
I hope that I have gained the reputation of being someone that would do anything. I think that that's an admirable reputation to have if you're an actor.
God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait
When you stop admiring yourself
and let the eyes of the heart
open your vision to vast other worlds
then all you do, will become admirable
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard.
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.
For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification.
I pride myself on that, even though I'm kind of under the radar, when I step on the field, I try to do an admirable job.
Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.
For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly.
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to that classic.
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.
It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.
Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
I support children's charities; I just don't want them around me. It's not very admirable, but it's the truth.
If you're blessed to do something like 'Roots'... you find yourself immersed. You're asked to do this, to do that - all for admirable causes. But you're just swamped.
Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.
I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights -- if need be -- with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.