Admire Quotes

1117 Admire quotes by 918 unique authors

Not only do I admire Jordan's accomplishments and his phenomenal basketball ability, but also the way he has conducted himself on and off the court.… — Elgin Baylor
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. — James Russell Lowell
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we… — Quintilian
What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. — Blaise Pascal
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your… — Ted Koppel
I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore. — Margaret Drabble
Take back your light. Know that when you're in awe of someone else's greatness, you're really seeing yourself. Identify what you most admire or love… — Debbie Ford
What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the universall Mother of… — William Lawson
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and… — Thomas Paine
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind… — Francis Bacon
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron… — Hermann Minkowski
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. — Saadi
You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one. — Alexander Pope
You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they admire. Also, when you get made fun… — Zac Efron
Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and… — Wernher von Braun
The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain… — Sigmund Freud
I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers. — Karl Lagerfeld
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and… — George Eliot
We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and… — Nicolas Steno
Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men. — Lucullus
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. — Israel Zangwill
Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as… — Aimee Mullins
I would like to be able to admire a man's opinions as I would his dog - without being expected to take it home with… — Frank A. Clark

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