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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• I have always admired men and women who used their talents to serve the community, and who were highly respected and admired for their efforts and sacrifices, even though they held no office whatsoever in government or society.

  Nelson Mandela

  Sacrifice, Men, Office

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.273, Pan Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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 are admirable potentialities in every human being.

  Andre Gide

  Humans, Human Beings

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• This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Men, Faces, Admiration

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

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Heart, Purpose, Growing

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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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• The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to fly off in a temper. The man who would control others must be able to control himself. There is something admirable, something inspiring, something soul-stirring about a man who displays coolness and courage under extremely trying circumstances. A good temper is not only a business asset. It is the secret of health. The longer you live, the more you will learn that a disordered temper breeds a disordered body.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Men, Self

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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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• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

  Winston Churchill

  Memories, Book, Men

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

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• People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

  Helen Hayes

  Retirement, People, Age

  Helen Hayes, Katherine Hatch (1991). “My life in three acts”

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• Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

  Victor Hugo

  Forgiveness, Giving, Quality

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• This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Angel, Men

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

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• A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

  Anita Brookner

  Women, People, Use

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• Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

  Jose Marti

  Ideas, Giving, Risk

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

  Thomas Huxley

  Children, Eye, Hands

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.432, Cambridge University Press

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• I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

  Anna Paquin

  Thinking, Quality, Able

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• Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Omnipotence, Monsters

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.167, A&C Black

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• Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Biographies, Autobiography, Omelets

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