Admiration Quotations

Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil.

When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people.

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

I guess as you get older you sort of see the mechanics, even with the best comedians. There's admiration for people I admire, but it's not guttural laughter. It's a wry 'Oh, well done, sir.' But I sort of miss that slightly; I miss the raw joy of comedy I used to get.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Ever since reading Jean Plaidy's 'Queen in Waiting,' I've felt deep admiration for Caroline of Ansbach.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

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 some dresses at night.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try to replace it. They choose the former.

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race.

We've always hoped that Page 2 would be a destination for people who wanted a good laugh and didn't take sports too seriously. Much of that was accomplished through parody, so it seemed natural that we'd be drawn to a product like the Onion. I think we've always had an admiration for what they do, and when we talked to the folks at the Onion, we found out that admiration was mutual.

It's what you always do. You confuse love for admiration.

I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire ...

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration

A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

She was an incredible human being, a strong, independent woman, and she did a lot of charity work. It's easy to become enamored with who she was and what she did.

Most people in Seattle do not know him. But we have, in many ways, this love, admiration, envy and curiosity for him. He's doing a bunch of good stuff with his money.

One of the things that young players have to not only learn but gain an admiration for is the respect factor of the game and the people who have participated in previous years, and an understanding of the history of the organization they are playing in. It's an organization very rich in tradition.

My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top.

My advice on getting a raise is what everybody's advice is: to become a confident negotiator; but that is so hard. My admiration for women who are good at that is unbridled. Women in general have a harder time talking about money with their bosses.

My father knew my husband long before I ever did. He actually always says that he loved him first... there really was this wonderful respect and admiration between the two of them before I even came into the picture.

My dad had the greatest admiration for MacArthur when they were working together in Washington before the Philippines. And Dad used to talk with absolute awe about MacArthur's brain.

Now, there's been a persistent legend and a lot of slogans, and the formation of societies for the fostering of Franco-American friendship, which have had some effect, but there is a strong admiration in this country for the culture of France, and generally speaking I think the French find the Americans have been stout supporters of them in many of their periods of distress.

I have huge admiration for this character. A lot of people might consider her to be sort of evil or bad, but I think she's wonderful. She's very complex and she's just a survivor, doing what she's got to do.

I have enormous friendship and respect with Tom Daschle. Always have had and always will have. And I have nothing but admiration and respect for what he is trying to do with this in the Senate. As he said yesterday, it doesn't matter where you start, what matters is where you wind up. We have different bodies and we have different ways of dealing with it,

I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.

I have great admiration for my father. We are proud of the courage he has exhibited this evening, and our family stands behind him and will support him through these tough days.

I have great admiration for IIT and their coaches. They don't get the type of players that the rest of the conference gets, but they came back to take the lead against us in the second half. There is no quit in those kids, and I admire them for that.

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.

I have so much admiration for people who devote their life to the church, ... I was quite inspired by Clara. I was inspired by her drive to do good, by her willingness to sacrifice herself and her body. How inspired she was inspired me.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for what he's done for our game. No one was more successful than Dean Smith.

I have a lot of admiration for Fernando Alonso, our careers are fairly similar because he also came very quickly into Formula One,

He has a very live personality that very positively impacts a football team. This is a physical game. If you can't watch the way he plays and have admiration for the pounding he absorbs in a football game and appreciate the way he approaches his performance, then you should be playing something else.

He is a class act and I have the most respect and admiration for him. We are both friends and business partners. If the U.S. was looking for another president and Roger were available, I'd pick him.

Whatever good there is in small boys is usually based upon their admiration for girls of their own age

He's hardheaded, competitive. I've always had great admiration for him.

He's been involved in this (war protest). He's very knowledgeable about what is going on. We don't always agree with him, but we have great admiration for his advocacy and willingness to take a stand.

It hurt personally because I had such admiration for Ken and Enron. But that was the right thing to do at the time.

I thought about Grissom and the admiration I had for him as a teammate in Milwaukee. I loved the way he played.

I think the friendship and mutual admiration between the prime minister and the president will facilitate that.

It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion

It has been a fantastic year for Ben. I am full of admiration for him. He has been very honest and open about how he has returned to the game and he is getting his reward.

People who over-promise and under-deliver, I don't have great admiration for, ... People who under-promise and over-deliver, I admire.

Red and I, I think, have a mutual admiration. That's all I can say.

Paul is a skilled and talented public relations executive whose respect from the press is matched only by the admiration of his peers. He is a brilliant strategist and manager whose intuitive understanding of the media landscape will be of enormous benefit in communicating The CW message to the press and all of our key constituents. In addition, Paul comes to The CW having worked at both UPN and The WB, providing a unique background and vantage point of what it takes to compete as the fifth broadcast network.

'Suena' is what the essence of the Olympics are about. There are the best athletes in the world up on one stage. The love and admiration and respect for each other is amazing to see.

steadfastness in defense of principle has won her admiration from around the world, wherever people value a free, aggressive press.

Staring at all the green bundles, ... Joey felt suddenly overwhelmed by the challenge of hanging onto it. The idea of finding that much money was proving to be more thrilling than the actual experience, much as the highs he got by shooting speed had long ago stopped living up to his expectations. The hard truth about life, which most people learned but that Joey had not, was that things had to be earned to be fully enjoyed. Success, accomplishment, the admiration of the world -- these were all things that could not be faked, or purchased with a needle or a windfall.

Someone like David Tennant is able to embrace people's love for 'Doctor Who' in a totally positive way. I have huge admiration for people who are able to do that.

Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves.

Well, I'm not going to review here all the candidates that are on the list, but I will attest to my admiration for Bono, ... He's somebody I admire. He does a lot of good in this world of economic development...he understands the give and take of development. He's very pragmatic, effective and idealistic.

We happily remain committed and caring friends with great love and admiration for one another. We ask in advance for your kindness and sensitivity in the coming months.

We had great attendance from other music communities in Nashville. Respect and admiration for bluegrass has grown in recent years, and we feel that we have much to learn from the other genres centered here.

The outstanding performance by the Investments Office in the past year has matched a record of achievement over time that has earned (Chief Investment Officer) David Swensen and his colleagues the highest possible praise and admiration from their peers,

We became our own mutual admiration society I think,