Quotes
Quotes about Admiration
Season your admiration for a while.
Beauty stands
In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive.
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.
There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration--and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on people to see how they will go. But it gets through more business in Spring than in any other season. In the Spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of twenty-four hours.
ADMIRATION - Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear. . . .
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration . . . because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
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.
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe prepares the way in us for the power of God to transform us and this transformation of our inner attitudes can only take place when awe leads us in turn to wonder, admiration, reverence, surrender, and obedience toward God.
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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 our frail and feeble mind.
