Admire Quotes

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin

What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.

Carl von Clausewitz

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.

Samuel Butler

When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.

Mahatma Gandhi

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Mac McCleary

How often in this world are the actions that we condemn the result of sentiments that we love, and opinions that we admire.

Anna Jameson

One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Alphonse de Lamartine

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Victor Hugo

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

Dale Carnegie

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind

Theophile Gautier

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

Paul Newman

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

F. H. Bradley

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Cullen Hightower