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

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is…

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in…

— Laurence Sterne

“Admirable man, who know teeth by dreams, think you that all those of philosophers are decayed?”

— Paul Valéry

“To rise from the national level to the level of mankind, I call that progress. And that's what's so admirable. For a man to…

— Pierre Boulle

“It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes…

— John Sinor

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

— Seneca the Younger

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

— Seneca the Younger

I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched…

— Seneca the Younger

The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not…

— Seneca the Younger

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

— Seneca the Younger

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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

— Oscar Wilde

Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith