Admirable Quotes - Page 2

• Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.

  Mariane Pearl

  People, Needs, Faces

  "Mariane Pearl, 2007 Women of the Year Honoree: What's She Up to Now?" by Mariane Pearl, www.glamour.com. October 27, 2008.

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• To me there is nothing so admirable as a passionate love-bond between two human begins. Sam loves Frodo and wants to protect him and Frodo is extremely protective of Sam. So what you have are these two people locked into this journey together. They don't need to explain what they are to each other, they don't need to talk about it; they just are.

  Sean Astin

  Journey, Two, People

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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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• By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

  Socrates

  Cities, Community, Urban

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• When you stop admiring yourself
  and let the eyes of the heart
  open your vision to vast other worlds
  then all you do, will become admirable

  Rumi

  Heart, Eye, Other Worlds

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• Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.158

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• If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Order, Eels

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

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• The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Society, World

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Deeds, Good Deeds, Concealed

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• He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

  William Godwin

  Library, Flavor, Dishes

  "The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays".

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

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Memories, Freedom, Political

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

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Giving, Advice

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

  Voltaire

  Believe, Independent, Taste

  "Candide, Or, Optimism". Book by Voltaire, 1759.

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• For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

  John Calvin

  Art, Astronomy, Pleasant

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.60, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

  Tacitus

  Law, Found, Precedent

  Tacitus (2013). “The Annals”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.

  Martha Stewart

  Achievement, Standards, Embarrassed

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