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Definition of Admire

Admire

  1. To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
  2. To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.
  3. To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.

Admire Quotations

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma Gandhi

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Admire Translations

admire in Afrikaans is bewonder
admire in Danish is beundre
admire in Dutch is bewonderen
admire in German is bewundere, bewundern, bewundern
admire in Italian is ammirare
admire in Latin is admiror, miror
admire in Norwegian is beundre
admire in Portuguese is admirar
admire in Spanish is admirar, venerar
admire in Swedish is beundra

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