Admiration Quotes

543 Admiration quotes by 423 unique authors

White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a… — Tom Robbins
When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it. — Idries Shah
To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share… — Robert Louis Stevenson
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration… — Horace
Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love. — Baltasar Gracian
We always like those who admire us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into… — E. M. Forster
Season your admiration for a while. — William Shakespeare
There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as… — Judith Viorst
We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so. — William Hazlitt
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . .… — Thomas Carlyle
To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting… — John Ruskin
I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners. — William Ralph Inge
As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value. — Samuel Johnson
Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different… — Alfred North Whitehead
The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait. — Henry A. Kissinger
Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision. — Max Beerbohm
I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration. — Jimmy Connors
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is… — Susan Sontag
I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized… — Maureen Howard
I remember years ago being on the set of 'Dreamcatcher' and not only did I have such great admiration for Morgan Freeman and was just… — Timothy Olyphant
I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing… — Hedi Slimane
I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for,… — Scoot McNairy

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