Admiration Quotes

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Fear, People

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Private Albert Einstein". Book by Peter A. Bucky, 1992.

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  Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

  William Arthur Ward

  Respect, Blessed, Blessing

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

  Katharine Hepburn

  Marriage, Funny Love, Wedding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Charles Kuralt

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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• Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Romantic, Respect

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• I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Yield, Office, Done

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• At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

  John Astin

  Ravens, People, Appreciated

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

  Joseph Priestley

  Admiration And Respect, Contempt, Aeroplanes

  Joseph Priestley, John Towill Rutt (1831). “The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt”, p.346

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• If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

  Lincoln Ellsworth

  Father, Son, Affection

  Lincoln Ellsworth (1938). “Beyond Horizons”, New York, Book League of America

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• Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

  John Polkinghorne

  Objectivity, Discovery, Views

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• I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

  Orson Scott Card

  Motivational, Sometimes, Wonder

  "Future on Fire". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.

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

  William Hazlitt

  Idols, May, Contempt

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1464, Delphi Classics

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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Being Happy, Inner Peace

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• Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Privilege, May, Reason

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Age, Dams

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.62, Routledge

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

  Joseph Addison

  Passion, Admiration And Respect, Decay

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1778). “The Spectator”, p.26

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• We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Admire, Admiring

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• 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

  Volunteer, Giving, Admiration And Respect

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• There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Joy, Evidence, Much Love

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• I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

  Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma

  Mistake, Past, Movement

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• But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  Mean, Soldier, Aeroplanes

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Knowing, Length, Admire

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• Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

  George Sand

  Stranger, Aeroplanes, Familiarity

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• I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.

  Robbie Keane

  Player, Joy, Might

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