To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
“A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.” — Nicholaa Spencer Copy Share Image
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks. — Shane Black Copy Share Image
A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster. — Henry George Copy Share Image
I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got,… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark,… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought… — Josephin Peladan Copy Share Image
Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it… — Michael Enzi Copy Share Image
Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal… — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
“You have built yourself inwardly to be the most admirable. Your evidence always comes to your world as a puzzle. You create… — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I didn't get a chance to meet Glen [Beck] for this movie. I did meet him a few years ago, coincidentally, before… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that. If… — Riley Keough Copy Share Image
While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our… — Raimond Gaita Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life than the sunflower. For me that's because of the reason… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
“Maximus was my model for self-control, fixity of purpose, and cheerfulness under ill-health or other misfortunes. His character was an admirable combination… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image