Sayings about Admiration
A fool admires himself most when he has done foolish things. ~ Chinese Proverb
A beautiful face is admired even when its owner doesn’t say anything. ~ Danish Proverbs
Everyone admires his own character. ~ Turkish Proverbs
One’s shadow grows larger than life when admired by the light of the moon. ~ Chinese Proverb
Better beloved than admired. ~ French Proverb
What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire. ~ Traditional Proverb
Each day you can admire the moon, the snow and the flowers. ~ Japanese Proverbs
We admire what we do not understand. ~ Indian Proverbs
Justice is better than admiration If you are going to kill, then kill an elephant; if you are going to steal make sure it’s a treasure. ~ Indian Proverb
Quotations about Admiration
We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure. ~ John Dryden
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. ~ Minna Antrim
Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases. ~ Samuel Johnson Quotes
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man’s life. ~ Thomas Carlyle
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place. ~ Henry Fielding
How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection! ~ Fulke Greville
The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive. ~ Archbishop Richard Whately
Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house. ~ Jean Kerr
Women fancy admiration means more than it does. ~ Mary Lydon Simonsen
Admiration is a youthful fancy which scarcely ever survives to mature years. ~ H.W.Shaw
A fool always finds a bigger fool to admire him. ~ Evan Esar
The desire to be pitied or to be admired is often the main reason we confide in others. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is only important to love the world …to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. ~ Hermann Hesse
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge of admiration. ~ William Hazlitt
Admiration; is our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves. ~ Ambrose Bierce
There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance. ~ Edmund Burke
You always admire what you really don’t understand. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ~ Ann Landers
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. ~ Andre Maurois
Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains. ~ Samuel Johnson
Admiration is a forced tribute ; to extort it from mankind, envious and ignorant as they are, they must be taken unawares. ~ James Northcote
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Distance is a great promoter of admiration. ~ Denis Diderot
For fools admire, but me of sense approve. ~ Alexander Pope
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted. ~ Zig Ziglar
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration. ~ Charles Horton Cooley
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. ~ Nero Wolfe
A hero is someone we can admire without apology. ~ Kitty Kelley
A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. ~ F.H.Bradley
That which astonishes, astonishes once; but whatever is admirable becomes more and more admired. ~ Joseph Joubert
Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious. ~ Honore de Balzac
Season your admiration for a while. ~ William Shakespeare Quotes
Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. ~ Lady Marguerite Blessington
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. ~ James Russell Lowell
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. ~ Blaise Pascal
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. ~ Joseph Addison Quotes
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something. I don’t know where I would be without it. ~ Thomas Mann
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love. ~ Sir Arthur Helps