A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

— E. W. Howe

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I…

— George Woodcock

I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial…

— Dee Dee Ramone

I've always admired people who are over-prepared.

— Randy Pausch

When I started stand-up, the people I admired most were the people who were the most themselves onstage.

— Paul F. Tompkins

“I have always admired people with strong roots, people who know where their home is and feel at one with themselves there, but that…

— Yangzom Brauen

I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

— Hillary Clinton

I've always admired people who can shift and change, and pop up in areas you didn't think they could, and that's what I wanted…

— Adrian Lester

I was called a terrorist yesterday... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.

— Nelson Mandela

I have always admired people who are comfortable not being liked because I am the opposite of that. To the point when I was…

— Kaitlin Olson

“I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.”

— Pat Conroy

I've always admired people like Donal McCann. He wasn't a household name, but if he put his name to something, you were guaranteed a…

— Liam Cunningham

When I first came to Washington, what I admired most was that people were just really, really smart with a tremendous amount of intellectual…

— Ezra Klein

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

— Jeannette Walls

“When I was young, I admired people who were clever. Now that I am old, I admire people who are kind.”

— Martin Buber