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Admiration Quotes

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

To exist without experiencing any humiliation or admiration would undoubtedly be a wretched existence.
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2.
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

3.
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
Apuleius

4.
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
William Congreve

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A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.
Matthew Pearl

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Worship is admiration becoming adoration.
Matt Papa

8.
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Rex Stout

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The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
Donald Knuth

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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.
It's what you always do. You confuse love for admiration.
Birdman

12.
You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.
N. T. Wright

13.
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
E. B. White

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Do not be jealous of others' good qualities, but out of admiration adopt them yourself.
Gautama Buddha

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Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.
Hermann Hesse

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All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.
Thomas Bernhard

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Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.
Niklaus Wirth

18.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley

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Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

20.
I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.
John Steinbeck

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Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.
Eric Stoltz

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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
St. Catherine of Siena

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This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
Ludwig van Beethoven

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Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.
Karl Donitz

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There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.
Orville Dewey

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Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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

28.
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
Denis Diderot

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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
Oscar Wilde

30.
We always love those who admire us,
but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

31.
Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.
Bret Harte

32.
Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.
Mason Cooley

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Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
Karl Barth

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I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.
Alice Walker

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There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.
T. S. Eliot

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At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.
John Astin

38.
Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.
Yoko Ono

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We always like those who admire us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.
Richard Rohr

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

42.
I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.
Pharrell Williams

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It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.
Mary Cassatt

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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Samuel Johnson

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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Minna Antrim

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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
Henry A. Kissinger

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
Aeschylus

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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt

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I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god.
Auguste Rodin

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Bad artists always admire each others work.
Oscar Wilde