“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 …
“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 …
“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 …
“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, …
“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 …
“Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, …
“To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that …
“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment” – Jane Austen
“Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire” – Dale Carnegie
“Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept …
“The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires” …
“Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.” – Cleopatra
“The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.” – Jean Cocteau
“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.” – Katharine Hepburn
“Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” – Ann Landers
“You always admire what you really don’t understand.” – Blaise Pascal
“We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of being we ascend” – William Wordsworth
“Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases” – Samuel Johnson
“Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but …
“She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not care to be …
“If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.” – Katharine Hepburn
“How dreary – to be – somebody! How public – like a frog – to tell your name – the livelong June – to an …
“Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it” – Rod McKuen
“Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.” – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
“Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts” – Francis …
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with …
“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” – Ann Landers
“If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as …
“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind” – Theophile Gautier