Admirable Quotes

• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Education, Time

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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  There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

  Homer

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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• To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  Irving Wallace

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Fear

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• Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pregnancy, Self, Defense

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.815, Open Road Media

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• Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.

  Larry Winget

  Motivational, Trust, Time

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.211, Penguin

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• Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Smart, Hard Work

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• There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.

  Phil Callaway

  Friendship, True Friend, Quality

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• 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, Noble

  Delmore Schwartz (1989). “Last & Lost Poems”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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

  Rex Stout

  Admiration, Wealth, Fortitude

  Rex Stout (2011). “The Red Box”, p.88, Crimeline

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• What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Moving, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Heart, Purpose, Growing

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• I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

  Ben Kingsley

  Falling In Love, Men, Idiot

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• To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine.

  Christopher Jones

  Luck, Helping, Divine

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• Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Humor, Genius, Elements

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

  Andre Gide

  Humans, Human Beings

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• There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

  Sean O Faolain

  Reality, Imagination, Intense

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• 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

  Powerful, War, Mean

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• The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Girl, Book, Writing

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Fredson Bowers (1981). “Lectures on Russian literature”, Harcourt

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• Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

  Blaise Pascal

  Deeds, Good Deeds, Concealed

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• Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Memories, Freedom, Political

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• Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

  Andre Gide

  Respect, Differences, Generations

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.93, Routledge

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• A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

  Edna Ferber

  Beautiful, Men, Tree

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.

  William Martin

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That's wonderful, and I'm happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

  Phil McGraw

  Fun, Smart, Self Esteem

  Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Giving, Advice

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