We Admire Quotes

55 quotes by 51 authors

• A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of… — Mikhail Bakunin
• The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're… — Dennis C. Blair
• We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat… — Graydon Carter
• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. — Francesca Annis
• 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
• 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
• I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We… — William Hazlitt
• In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies. — Martin Luther
• Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire. — Melvyn Douglas
• We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.' — B.F. Skinner
• Nature's beauty we all admire in every shape and form, but how much more we admire her when the weather's nice and warm. — Janet Hargreaves
• In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God… — Andrew Greeley
• Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external… — Nathaniel Branden
• Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire. — Abel Bonnard
• A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite humorist--Mark Twain. Carlo DeVito brings… — Gilbert King
• We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote… — Walter Bagehot
• We grow into that which we admire. — Emmet Fox
• Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the… — Alonzo King
• You see it is important to understand how damaged people don't always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when… — Lidia Yuknavitch
• We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like. — Mignon McLaughlin

Who Wrote These We Admire Quotes

51 authors contributed a total of 55 We Admire Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 We Admire Quotes by Francesca Annis
• 2 We Admire Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• 1 We Admire Quote by Dennis C. Blair
• 1 We Admire Quote by Orhan Pamuk
• 1 We Admire Quote by Graydon Carter
• 1 We Admire Quote by Jim Butcher
• 1 We Admire Quote by Alexandra Ivy
• 1 We Admire Quote by Quintilian
• 1 We Admire Quote by Thomas Bernhard
• 1 We Admire Quote by Nicolas Steno
• 1 We Admire Quote by André Aciman
• 1 We Admire Quote by William Hazlitt
• 1 We Admire Quote by Cullen Hightower
• 1 We Admire Quote by Martin Luther
• 1 We Admire Quote by Harold Urey
• 1 We Admire Quote by Melvyn Douglas
• 1 We Admire Quote by Chip Conley
• 1 We Admire Quote by B.F. Skinner
• 1 We Admire Quote by Francois Cluzet
• 1 We Admire Quote by Janet Hargreaves
• 1 We Admire Quote by Jackson Katz
• 1 We Admire Quote by Andrew Greeley
• 1 We Admire Quote by Alexander Lowen
• 1 We Admire Quote by Nathaniel Branden
• 1 We Admire Quote by Mick Ebeling