Quotes about Admiration

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause. The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depth by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.

Ladies, whose bright eyes rain influence, and judge the prize.

Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The more admirable the hero is and the more intense your admiration is, the more profound will be your transformation. In the case of Jesus, he is infinitely admirable, and our admiration rises to the most absolute worship. Therefore, when we behold him as we should, the change is profound.

God loves us by liberating us from the bondage of self so that we can enjoy knowing and admiring him forever.

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

We want people to like us and admire us and speak well of us. It is a deadly drive. Jesus warned us, "Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Matthew 23:12).

Let your light shine before others, sothat they may see your good works." So the motive at stake is not simply whether you want your acts to be known by others, but why you want them to be known—that God be glorified, or that you be admired.

If the beams are beautiful, the sun is even more beautiful. God's aim is not that we merely admire His gifts, but even more, His glory.