(419 quotes found)
“A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.”
William Lyon Phelps
“Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.”
Cleopatra
“Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases”
Samuel Johnson
“Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.”
Paul Morand
“To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“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.”
Albert Einstein
“If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.”
Katharine Hepburn
“If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.”
William Bennett
“Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.”
Saint Augustine
