Admiration Quotes

543 quotes by 423 authors

Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking… — Yoshida Kenko
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and… — Joseph Joubert
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. — Benjamin Franklin
Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and… — Dan Barker
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. — Elbert Hubbard
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them… — William Hazlitt
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration. — William Hazlitt
Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you. . . . We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of… — Elaine L. Jack
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. — Blaise Pascal
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as… — James M. Barrie
They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs.… — Woodrow Wilson
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and… — Joseph Addison
I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my… — Beyonce Knowles
Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe… — Lise Meitner
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and… — Albert Einstein
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots,… — John Milton
It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he… — Annie Besant
To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life. — Gregor Mendel

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