Quotes about Admiration
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
— John Adams
Let the cymbals of popularity tinkle still. Let the butterflies of fame glitter with their wings. I shall envy neither their music nor their colors.
— John Adams
Hero-worship is innate to human nature, and it is founded on some of our noblest feelings,—gratitude, love, and admiration.—but which, like all other feelings, when uncontrolled by principle and reason, may easily degenerate into the wildest exaggerations, and lead to most dangerous consequences.
— John Calvin
When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.
— John Calvin
We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.
— John Calvin
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
— Will Rogers
A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.
— Winston Churchill
We live by admiration, hope and love.
— William Wordsworth
The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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