Admirable Quotes

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.
Diane Lane

Good, Beautiful, School

I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.
Lee Myung-bak

History, Freedom, Courage

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.
Jasmine Guy

Whether, Quality, Community

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.
Anna Paquin

Life, Amazing, Person

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
Hattie McDaniel

Place, High, Sincerity

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
Jose Marti

Life, Great, Power

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
Hilaire Belloc

Nothing, Between, Omelet

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
Delmore Schwartz

Love, Courage, Difficult

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.
William Bartram

Though, Late, Full

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.
Will Oldham

Real, Pirate, Functional

McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.
Jim Cantalupo

Pretty, Old, Able

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.
Catherine Helen Spence

Age, Teacher, School

People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
Zac Posen

Life, Themselves, Style

I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.
Shane Black

Able, Few, Movie

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.
Michael Enzi

Faith, Try, Support

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
Willard Van Orman Quine

Real, May, Material

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
Jacques Maritain

Great, Strength, America

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.
Pierre Curie

Great, Men, War

So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.
David Krumholtz

Country, Show, Wants

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
Margery Allingham

Cannot, Attention, Command

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