Admiration Quotes

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.

I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

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

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.

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

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

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

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

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

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

Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.