Admiration Quotes - Page 16

• none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.

  Sophie von La Roche

  World, Courtesy, Tribute

  Sophie von La Roche (1991). “The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim: Extracted by a Woman Friend of the Same from Original Documents and Other Reliable Sources”, p.135, SUNY Press

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• I know that great gifts come at a price, and that not all talent inspires admiration.

  Sally O'Reilly

  Inspire, Talent, Great Gifts

  Sally O'Reilly (2014). “Dark Aemilia”, p.21, Myriad Editions

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• Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are

  Chris Burden

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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• What I'm interested in exploring with Clark Kent is when you have the power to do something that goes beyond what you think is the right thing to do and the difficulty of that. Meaning, to be Superman also means to withhold a lot of power. He could reshape the world however he thinks it should be. But Superman doesn't, historically, do those things. He allows a certain level of self-governing and a certain level of independence, I think out of an admiration for humanity. Because he's inspired by the best in us and he challenges us to inspire each other to be the best that we can be.

  Scott Snyder

  Mean, Thinking, Self

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• That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

  John Ruskin

  Devil, Tails, Green

  John Ruskin (2010). “The Poetry of Architecture - Cottage, Villa, Etc - To Which Is Added Suggestions on Works of Art”, p.161, Orchard Press

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• I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Zero, Years, Tasks

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• When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Self, Choices

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• The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing its motions, and admiring its splendor, without being led to Christ by it, the use of it will be lost on us.

  Thomas Adams

  Inspirational, Bible, Christian

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• Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Hero, Littles, Given

  "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard". Book by Elbert Hubbard, 1927.

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• Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Real, Ignorance

  William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.37

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• It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Men, History

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• Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

  William Hazlitt

  Vanity, Driven, Conceit

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics

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• Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you. . . . We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of unrealistic comparisons.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Life, Spiritual, Maturity

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• It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.

  Albert Einstein

  Character, Fate, Science

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

  John Milton

  Learning, Men, Bravery

  John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.277

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• It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, o­ne of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher.

  Annie Besant

  Teacher, Character, Islam

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• To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

  Gregor Mendel

  Sadness, Misery, Shame

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• One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wind, Abuse, Trying

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Thinking, Ignorant

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• What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Nature, Science, Ideas

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• Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

  John Howe

  Drawing, Interest

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• Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

  Kristin Cashore

  Monsters, Thanks, Caught

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

  Dan Barker

  Love, Dream, Kindness

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.88, Ulysses Press

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• How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.

  William Rothenstein

  Beauty, Art, Garden

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• Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

  Cullen Hightower

  Business, Agreement, May

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