“I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.” – Orson Scott Card

“If a man could mount to heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had some one to share in his pleasure” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it” – Joseph Joubert

“Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.” – Paul Morand

“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: all of them can make me laugh.” – W. H. Auden

“Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.” – Joseph Addison

“A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.” – William Lyon Phelps

“Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.” – Saint Augustine

“Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.” – William Blake

“If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.” – William Bennett