Welcome to Admire Quotes, where inspiration meets eloquence, and wisdom finds its voice. In the tapestry of human experience, few threads are as vibrant and enduring as the words of admiration. Whether spoken by the great minds of history or whispered in moments of personal reflection, these quotes possess the power to uplift spirits, ignite passions, and remind us of the beauty that surrounds us.
Within these pages, you’ll discover a treasury of admiration quotes that span the spectrum of human emotions and experiences. From the profound insights of philosophers and poets to the heartfelt expressions of love and gratitude, each quote serves as a beacon of light in the journey of self-discovery and appreciation for the world around us. As you explore these timeless words, may you find solace, inspiration, and the courage to embrace life’s wonders with open arms.
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens. Georg Baselitz
I tend to leave people alone that I admire. Jason Statham
I don’t want to throw mud at anyone – I really admire Gandhi as a brilliant strategist – but Gandhi was pretty manipulative, you know. Robert Greene
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. Arthur Helps
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. Dale Carnegie
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. Napoleon Hill
The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage. John Muir
I can’t bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. D. H. Lawrence
Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar. Beyonce Knowles
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. Anatole France
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. Charlotte Bronte
There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don’t necessarily want to be like them. I’m too happy being myself. James D’arcy
I actually admire the Indian artiste ‘Lost Stories.’ He made a remix of my song ‘Faded.’ That is really good and cool because it actually represented Indian music. I just loved the song; it so unique. Alan Walker
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. Saadi
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. William Congreve
I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others. Sidney Sheldon
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. Jane Austen
We can all learn something from people we admire. Chris Gardner
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All this is only for the mice and myself to admire! Catherine the Great
I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Every actor has a reason for being an actor… it’s boring to play the same person over and over again. People like Daniel Day Lewis, who completely transform time and time again, I look up to. Joe Dempsie
I admire ‘Adventure Time’ for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don’t, you can watch a fun cartoon. Rebecca Sugar
The Pathan people of Waziristan are proud people who I greatly admire. Greg Mortenson
Taylor Swift – I can’t say enough good things about her. I admire her so much as a person and as a role model for young women. Martha Hunt
I admire Sachin Tendulkar for being one of the best role models for young cricketers, and no one in Pakistan even doubts his greatness, as his records speak for himself. Shahid Afridi
What gives me strength and inspires me is never to go back to where I once was. My inspiration is to see my son as he admires me and knowing that I have someone there who depends on me. I have to do things right. I have to move forward. Anuel AA
Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire – Hopper, Sargent, Twain – and postcards from beloved bookstores where I’ve spent all my time and money – Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore. J. R. Moehringer
I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed. Martha Stewart
The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness. Oscar de la Renta
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior. Graydon Carter
I want to literally quit drag and go live in the woods somewhere and write music for my favorite female singers, like Miley Cyrus or Kacey Musgraves. I would love to be able to write music for them and hear these women I admire sing my songs. That would be like doing drag without having to get into drag myself. Trixie Mattel
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. Maya Angelou
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. Richard M. Nixon
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography. George Eastman
My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that’s a hard thing to do. I admire that. Will Ferrell
I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they’re my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics. John Cena
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs. Alphonse de Lamartine
Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a reason. They understand that this is the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution: steam engine, electricity, then the microchip – blockchain and crypto is the fourth. Brock Pierce
To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one’s idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven. Delphine de Girardin
I like a woman that’s capable and at the same time feminine. I admire tomboy qualities but with a feminine touch. Paul Walker
I admire Governor Blagojevich’s unbending commitment to giving every person in Illinois access to health care. Tammy Duckworth
In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends. Dirk Kempthorne
The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. Edgar Allan Poe
When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that. Ted Danson
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. Abraham Joshua Heschel
I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I’ll admire it but I wouldn’t copy their style. Michael Hutchence
The person who I admire most in business is Warren Buffett. He is a long-term investor and has brilliant ideas, and he sticks to them. Bernard Arnault
Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity – I admire wise men. Some of my favorite forms of history are religious history, what the sages say from the top of the mountain and how they view life. Keith Thurman
Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them. Paul Morand
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. James Baldwin
The creative people I admire seem to share many characteristics: A fierce restlessness. Healthy cynicism. A real world perspective. An ability to simplify. Restraint. Patience. A genuine balance of confidence and insecurity. And most importantly, humanity. David Droga
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. Richard Bach
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. Jonathan Sacks
Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home. Emily Bronte
Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all. J. D. Vance
I think everyone mentions Bob Dylan, but he’s someone I just admire so much as a songwriter. I think people write songs, and then there’s Bob Dylan songs. He’s one step ahead of just everybody else. Tom Odell
Whenever I am asked who I admire most among the leaders I have met, I have no hesitation in naming Nelson Mandela. Mahathir Mohamad
I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions. Alfred Russel Wallace
CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she’s strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it. Jay Leno
Many admire, few know. Hippocrates
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. Christian Nestell Bovee
I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I’d worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with. Andre Braugher
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. Oscar Wilde
I admire people who destroy themselves. Karl Lagerfeld
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive. Barbra Streisand
The Church is not an automobile showroom – a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
If you’re blindly loyal to me, then you’re just acting like a crony of mine. If you say you admire me because of the principles for which I stand, I understand that, but then you also have the right to call me to the carpet when you think I’m falling short. Jamie Dimon
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
I love flamenco. It’s very difficult music to sing. But I think of any genre as a snow globe – you don’t admire it for its stillness. You have to shake it up and see how it explodes. Rosalia
I admire Miken’s exceptional engineering capabilities and was drawn to their passion for hockey and drive to be the best in all they do. Brett Hull
I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it’s a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let’s own who we are and use it as a strength. Gal Gadot
If a man sees a woman with red lipstick, he admires her, but often he won’t feel like kissing her. Monica Bellucci
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance, you can only admire it. Elizabeth Taylor
I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist. LL Cool J
I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players. David Bowie
I really admire Ana Mendieta. She was a Cuban American artist who died the year I was born and whose work examines violence, feminism, and belonging. Her art is always brave and visually arresting and vibrates with meaning. Emma Healey
When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids. Johnny Depp
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. Barbara Kingsolver
I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain. Monica Ali
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Carl Sandburg
To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful. James Welch
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. Mahatma Gandhi
I’ve met some incredible people who I really admire. Taron Egerton
We tend to become like those whom we admire. Thomas S. Monson
I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that are really smart and talented, and we can problem solve together. Tom Cruise
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody. Maya Angelou
You always admire what you really don’t understand. Blaise Pascal
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead. Leo Rosten
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence. Ayrton Senna
When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them. Edmund Hillary
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. Theophile Gautier
Grace is what matters in anything – especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That’s a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive. Jeff Buckley
Fools admire, but men of sense approve. Alexander Pope
Don’t waste time on what’s not important. Don’t get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don’t dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you’d admire. Allegra Huston
My mum’s amazing. She’s the person I admire most, I think, in her sacrifice to me and my sister and her level of emotional sacrifice to people around her. She takes a high level of personal responsibility for the welfare of people around her. Jon Richardson
Don’t get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. Mark Hyman
The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It’s astounding. Maybe they can’t see or they can’t hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They’re models of courage, in a strange way. James Hillman
I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do. Terry Pratchett
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. W. H. Auden
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit. Hesiod