Admire 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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• Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.

  Jason Statham

  Writing, Views, Guy

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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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• Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Sexy, Body, Silhouettes

  "The Beyoncé Experience". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 13, 2007.

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• To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

  Theophile Gautier

  Love, Heart, Carpe Diem

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

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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Being Happy, Inner Peace

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• Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Mother

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• I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

  Sidney Sheldon

  People, Kind, Fairs

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• Who exactly do you want to be? What kind of person do you
  want to be? What are your personal ideals? Whom do you admire? What are their special traits that you would make your own It's time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to become wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become. If you have a daybook, write down who you're trying to be, so that you can refer to this self-determination. Precisely describe the demeanor you want to adopt so that you may preserve it when you are by yourself or with other
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  Epictetus

  Wise, Determination, Writing

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  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

  Love, Wisdom, Appreciation

  John Steinbeck (1963). “The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl”

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  Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

  George Eastman

  Photography, Creativity, Keys

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• If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

  Kanye West

  Flower, Rapper, Smell

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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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• Be the mirror in which people admire their true potential.

  Ron Kaufman

  Mirrors, Service Culture, People

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• Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

  Barbara Walters

  Inspirational, Women, Acceptance

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• All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Reading, Leader, Study

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• You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

  Tove Jansson

  Inspirational, Too Much, Ifs

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Tales from Moominvalley”, p.9, Macmillan

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• The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

  James Agate

  Travel, Home, Men

  James Agate (1951). “The Later Ego: Consisting of Ego 8 and Ego 9”

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

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Humorous, Vices

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

  Thomas Mann

  Horse, Animal, Doe

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• Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Stupidity, Criticism

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 390

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Knowing, Admiration, Length

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• The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

  Mary Schmich

  Movie, Gambling, Actors

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• A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

  Quintilian

  Art, Want, Life Is

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• All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fire, Scary, World

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