Admiration Quotes

If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then I immediately realised I already had. Not an archangel like Saint Michael, but my human angel from Detroit, wearing an overcoat and no hat, with lank brown hair and eyes the coler of water.

~ Patti Smith

How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then I immediately realised that I already had. Not an archangel like Saint Michael, but my human engel from Detroit, wearing an overcoat and no hat, with lank brown hair and eyes the coler of water.

~ Patti Smith

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.

~ Lise Meitner

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

~ J. Tuzo Wilson

Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality.

~ Auliq Ice

I see you, I see others and I want to see you more.

~ Pushpa Rana

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

~ Charles Darwin

This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.

~ Claude Louis Berthollet

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

~ Thomas Jefferson

There's nothing easier to control than a person who trusts you. They place their hope in your hands. They place their respect in your hands. What is truly fearsome about such delusional admiration, is the betrayal that you don't see, hidden within the white void of truth.

~ Lionel Suggs

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.

~ Roman Payne

Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you’re a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet.

~ Megan Abbott

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind.

~ Criss Jami

Small, therefore, can we think the progress we have made, as long as our admiration for those who have done noble things is barren, and does not of itself incite us to imitate them.

~ Plutarch

I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be him. I coveted his talents, face, style. I wanted to wake up with them all transferred to me.

~ Hanif Kureishi

The birds in the sky can never great the king yet their beauty gives the king to stare at them endlessly, wishing to be with them in the sky.

~ Auliq Ice

She looks great in that skirt. Her butt is so cute.

~ C.b. Lee

I like your hair down. He twisted his fingers through the curls.My eyes drifted shut as I relaxed next to him. It's a mess. I need to get a haircut.Hayden's fingers stilled. No. You shouldn't cut your hair. It's beautiful.I would never cut my hair. Ever.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

~ Leo Tolstoy

And thank you for saying all of that, and for loving me, for you haven't gone unloved, or unadmired, yourself.

~ V.c. Andrews

Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

~ John Steinbeck

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

~ William Arthur Ward

Love is one of the strongest feelings one can ever have.

~ Auliq Ice

His muscles flexed as he stood, and Rosa couldn’t prevent herself from watching with veiled admiration. He was certainly a very beautiful man. She looked away in embarrassment, worried she might say or do something inappropriate.

~ Emily Arden

If you admire somebody you should go ahead and tell them, people never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

~ Reddit

She was forthright to the point of rudeness, yet he couldn’t help admiring her for saying what she really thought. It was rather refreshing to be challenged for a change – it had been many years since anyone had dared to do that. His wealth and power generally seemed to strike rather too much awe into those he associated with. It seemed this Tamsin was different.

~ Emily Arden

That's a very admirable quality in a wife. The ability to admit she is in the wrong.

~ Lindsay Armstrong

I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

~ Donald Miller

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

~ John Piper

The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all conquerors.

~ Simon Bolivar

I really admire people in the public eye, who have influence or celebrity and they take a stand on something important, bring awareness and take compassionate action.When you have been blessed with abundance or are an influencer and you bring attention to a cause, or do something to help the world, that's using your blessings for the greater good. Those are the people who inspire me.

~ Eileen Anglin

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

~ William Lyon Phelps

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

~ Joseph Priestley

He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners.

~ Debbie Reynolds