(406 quotes found)
“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind”
Theophile Gautier
“Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
“When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.”
Joss Whedon
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”
Carl Sandburg
“She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not care to be herself.”
Anais Nin
“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
Katharine Hepburn
“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
“Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.”
“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
“Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.”
Benjamin Franklin
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