Definition of Admire

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Admire

To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.

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.

To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.

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Admire Quotations

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

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

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore Roosevelt

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale Carnegie

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan Poe

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Jane Austen

You always admire what you really don't understand.
Blaise Pascal

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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