Top 804 Admiration Quotes & Sayings

Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.

Admiration is the basis of ignorance.

I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense of duty rather than the desire for self-advancement, that must be appealed to. Envy is akin to admiration, and it is the admiration that the rich and powerful excite which secures the perpetuation of aristocracies.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate them especially in their nationalism against the West. But mutated by Saddam Hussein it became also one that very, very much admired, and grew a special moustache in admiration of the work of Yosif Vissarionovitch Dzugashvili, the great Georgian known to us historically as Stalin. So you had him in modern Iraq, a regime in our own time, that was openly, directly modelled upon the two most extreme examples of European totalitarianism.

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

It's what you always do. You confuse love for admiration.

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

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

Worship is admiration becoming adoration.

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

I enjoy the love and admiration of the people.

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

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.

I am not immersed in self-admiration.

I have a great deal of admiration for my mum.

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.

I have unqualified admiration for Brad Pitt.

The older you've gotten, the more respect and admiration you've received.

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.

He looked at her levelly. There was something in his eyes, a sort of quizzical admiration; she wondered if it was simply admiration of Jessamine’s looks. “No,” he said. “No, even though you are the perfect picture of Jessamine, I can see Tessa through it somehow as if, if I were to scrape away a layer of paint, there would be my Tessa underneath.” “I am not your Tessa either.” The light sparkling in his eyes dimmed. “Fair enough,” he said. “I suppose you are not.

Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a "mutual admiration society"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.

I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for and admiration of literature, and that, the enthusiasm and admiration, can revitalize the reader’s love for the art form. I’m grateful for How Literature Saved My Life because the book has made me think again – and for the first time in a while – 'Well, what is it we do when we read?' It’s a damned annoying question, but it needs to be asked now and then, and Shields has asked it in a way I find resonant and moving.

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

I have admiration for beautiful women.

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

We live by admiration, hope and love.

I have great admiration for Woody Hayes.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

I can only have admiration for the Irish as a nation.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

I encourage all Americans to express admiration and appreciation to fathers.

It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.

Admiration is seen as a noble sentiment - we admire people for admiring others, detecting, in their admiration, a suggestion of taste and humility.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.

I learned from admiration and osmosis.

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

I have great admiration for Atal Bihari Vajapyee.

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.

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

Season your admiration for a while.

There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

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

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

- Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise? She shook her head. - That my admiration for you is painfully strong? - I want Van – she cried – and not intangible admiration. - Intangible? You goose. You my gauge it, you may brush it once very lightly with the knuckles of you gloved hand. I said knuckles. I said once. That will do. I can't kiss you. Not even your burning face. Good-bye, pet. Tell Edmond to take a nap after he returns. I shall need him at two in the morning.

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.