Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Admiration

Admiration is our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
Arthur Helps (1813–75) British Essayist, Historian

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live,, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
Arthur Helps (1813–75) British Essayist, Historian

You always admire what you really don’t understand.
Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) American Actor, TV Personality

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French Poet, Playwright, Film Director

One’s shadow grows larger than life when admired by the light of the moon.
Chinese Proverb

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

While on a ladder, never step back to admire your work.
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A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943) American Literary Scholar, Academic

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 alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English Essayist, Poet, Playwright, Politician

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other we are flattered, into compliance.
Edmund Burke (1729–97) British Philosopher, Statesman

Everyone admires his own character.
Turkish Proverb

There is a pleasure in admiration; and this it is which properly causeth admiration, when we discover a great deal in an object which we understand to be excellent; and yet we see more beyond that, which our understandings cannot fully reach and comprehend.
John Tillotson

A fool admires himself most when he has done foolish things.
Chinese Proverb

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) English Poet

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924 ) British Idealist Philosopher

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings—admiration or pity.
Anatole France (1844–1924) French Novelist

Bad artists always admire each other’s work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

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
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636–1711) French Poet, Satirist, Literary Critic

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) English Playwright, Novelist, Zionist Activist

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!.
Denis Diderot (1713–84) French Philosopher, Writer

What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.
Common Proverb

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer

We admire what we do not understand.
Indian Proverb

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali Poet, Polymath

We always like those who admire us, but we do not always like those whom we admire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer

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