Admiration Quotes - Page 14

• The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Nice

  MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1870). “OUR VILLAGE”, p.406

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• Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Delight, Chiefs

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.37, Knopf

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• She who only finds her self-esteem
  In others' admiration, begs an alms;
  Depends on others for her daily food,
  And is the very servant of her slaves;
  Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour,
  O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert,
  Which not ennobles but degrades her state.

  Joanna Baillie

  Self Esteem, Men, May

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.27

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• Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener).

  Brian Tracy

  Appreciation, Acceptance, People

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• I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Wish, Talent, Virtue

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• it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Envy, Secret, Excellence

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• Even when men approve of the same arrangements, it must be asked whether they approve of them because they exist or because they are desirable in themselves. The common resistance to the collectivist tide should not be allowed to obscure the fact that the belief in integral freedom is based on an essentially forward-looking attitude and not on any nostalgic longing for the past or a romantic admiration for what has been.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Attitude, Men, Past

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Spiritual, Believe, Book

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent upon winning a tribute of admiration, or some hint which they can turn to the account of pen-craft, there is seldom in their company any of the delightful unconsciousness which harmonizes a circle.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Winning, Circles, Hints

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• The number of those who have to be assimilated to the majority is not too high. It remains small compared with the numbers of the majority. But there is one thing - and that is the main reason for this digression - that French and British have in common: to this day they have an immense pride in being French, in being British. The fact that in the meantime both have come down to earth a little has not yet affected their pride in their own nationality and the fact that, if I may express it that way, they are mutual admiration societies: how fine the British are, how fine the French are.

  Norbert Elias

  Pride, Earth, Common

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.

  William Benton Clulow

  Genius, Sometimes, Natural

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.338

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• The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

  Jane Addams

  Real, Successful, Irritation

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

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• I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.

  Shana Alexander

  Struggle, Fighting, Snakes

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Weakness, Notorious

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.82

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• Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

  Honore de Balzac

  Tedious

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• Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Needs, Emotion

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• A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fashion, Indifference, Excuse

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• Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but little rest. And it is not necessary to invest a wise man with power to convince him that it is a garment bedizened with gold, which dazzles the beholder by its splendor, but oppresses the wearer by its weight.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Moving, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.94

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• jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed, leaders have found convenient excuses for seeking them and have used them to impress crowds, reward friends, deprive foes, forge alliances, and justify war. Jewels may find their highest expression in the decorative arts, but they have also earned a place in the art of the possible.

  Madeleine Albright

  Art, War, Expression

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• Admiration spoils all from infancy.

  Blaise Pascal

  Infancy, Spoil

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Ocean, Ignorance

  John Ruskin (1907). “The stones of Venice”

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• It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

  John Ruskin

  Sacrifice, Giving, Religion

  John Ruskin (1855). “¬The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.17

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• one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Beauty, Art, Voice

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.

  Yoko Ono

  Jealousy, Admire

  Yoko Ono (2013). “Acorn”, p.207, Algonquin Books

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• There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.

  Joseph Joubert

  Daughter

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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