"To cease to admire is a proof of…" — Charles Horton Cooley

"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."

— Charles Horton Cooley

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61 Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally…
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and…
No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom…
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because…
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the…
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms…
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because…
The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is,…
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to…
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation…
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your…

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can… — Jane Austen
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long… — John Adams
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. — Ambrose Bierce
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. — Aeschylus
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of… — Jo Brand
I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot… — Wilford Brimley
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of… — Julie Burchill
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. — Dale Carnegie

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