Admirable Quotes · Page 4

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

— John C. Maxwell

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

— Oscar Wilde

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

— Anthony Bourdain

“No one will disagree that bringing laughter to children in a dark world is admirable.”

— Dean Koontz

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

— Gloria Steinem

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

— George Will

“Grounded by healthy self-esteem and personal self-worth, this admirable character quality can inspire awe and reverence.”

— Susan C. Young

“Modesty is an admirable quality, but it shouldn't be confused with insecurity or self-doubt.”

— Sofia Malamas

There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book…

— A. J. P. Taylor

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being…

— Matthew Shultz

“I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have…

— Anonymous

When you stop admiring yourself and let the eyes of the heart open your vision to vast other worlds then all you…

— Rumi

Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.

— Martha Stewart

Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work…

— Tony Kushner

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and…

— Seneca the Younger

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a…

— Anonymous

...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a…

— Dean Koontz

That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ...…

— Galileo Galilei

Honestly, I have s much respect for single moms or anybody who finds themselves a single mother, but to even choose to…

— Jennifer Lopez

Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck'…

— Adrian Desmond

There are good intentions behind many peoples conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified…

— Julie Klausner

Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation,…

— Larry Winget

There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he…

— Anonymous

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.

— Walter J. Phillips

'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to that classic.

— Michael Dirda

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

— Anonymous

The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God’s,

— Taylor Caldwell

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

— Jacques Maritain

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

— Matthew Gray Gubler

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

— Margery Allingham

Having a backbone is admirable. But don't forget your neck sticks out one end.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“But there was something so admirable about her innocence that he would not insult her by tarnishing it.”

— Eve Edwards

Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.

— Mariane Pearl

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

— Oscar Wilde

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

— Cecil B. DeMille

I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that.

— Riley Keough

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

— Hilaire Belloc

The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it…

— Rachel Kushner