Admiration Quotes

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Charles Kuralt

Love, Family, Important

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

Religion, Mind, Humble

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

Ignorance, Daughter

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn

Men, Sacrifice, Married

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Strong, Quality

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

Old, Natural, Antique

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Might, Found, Innocence

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn

Men, Give, Married

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.
Mitt Romney

Respect, Help, Give

That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.
Mitt Romney

Live, Said, Fact

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.
Cornel West

Love, Peace, Women

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen

Love, Moment, Lady

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce

Another, Ourselves, Polite

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Bertrand Russell

Age, Power, Machine

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gift, Admirer, Regard

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

Great, Speaks, Discretion

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane Austen

Woman, Another, Loves

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John Adams

Love, Children, Long

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
William Lyon Phelps

Respect, Word, Student

There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Samuel Johnson

Made, Distant, Charms

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
Rod McKuen

Sleep, Company, Cats

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison

Passion, Growing, Object

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

Wonderful, Accept, Dog

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

May, Off, Though

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Charles Caleb Colton

Writing, Real, Fine

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

Yourself, Wonderful, Accept

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
Jean Cocteau

Wants, Poet, Asks

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
George Sand

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Arthur Helps

Affection, Pity, Recipes

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.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Great, Smart, Mean

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