The below inspirational admiration quotes will help you to know that the secret to finding happiness is to admire without desiring. Admiration inspires self-improvement through learning from role models. Apart from admiration quotes, you can also find other inspirational quotes on alarm, alienation, amusement, and arrogance.
Here is a collection of inspirational admiration quotes to find some inspiration.
1. “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
2. “I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.” ― Alfred Russel Wallace
3. “I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
4. “I have no idols. I admire work, dedication, and competence.” ― Ayrton Senna
5. “Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.” ― Dale Carnegie
6. “The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” ― Carl Sandburg
7. “To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.” ― Theophile Gautier
8. “We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.” ― Arthur Helps
9. “We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.” ― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
10. “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
11. “Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.” ― Christian Nestell Bovee
12. “I admire my father greatly.” ― Kojo Annan
13. “I admire rugged hard men who play rugby because it’s something I would never contemplate.” ― Chris Eubank Sr.
14. “I like a woman that’s capable and at the same time feminine. I admire tomboy qualities but with a feminine touch.” ― Paul Walker
15. “I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.” ― Richard Bach
16. “I’ve met some incredible people who I really admire.” ― Taron Egerton
17. “Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
18. “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
19. “We tend to become like those whom we admire.” ― Thomas S. Monson
20. “You always admire what you really don’t understand.” ― Blaise Pascal
21. “Fools admire, but men of sense approve.” ― Alexander Pope
22. “I like to work with people that I like hanging out with, that I admire, that is really smart and talented, and we can problem-solve together.” ― Tom Cruise
23. “I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
24. “I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.” ― Roberto Cavalli
25. “Passion is a quality I admire in a woman.” ― Cate Blanchett
26. “The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.” ― Alphonse de Lamartine
27. “The only things one can admire at length are that one admires without knowing why.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
28. “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
29. “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
30. “Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.” ― Saadi
31. “A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.” ― Leo Rosten
32. “A hero is someone we can admire without apology.” ― Kitty Kelley
33. “All this is only for the mice and me to admire!” ― Catherine the Great
34. “I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.” ― Sidney Sheldon
35. “I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.” ― David Bowie
36. “If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
37. “It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.” ― Oscar Wilde
38. “The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.” ― F. H. Bradley
39. “There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.” ― William Congreve
40. “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
41. “Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.” ― Mandy Moore
42. “I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I’m not capable, I’m too cowardly for that.” ― Shakira
43. “I admire honesty more than any other trait.” ― Jerry Reinsdorf
44. “I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.” ― Maya Angelou
45. “I can’t think of anyone I admire who isn’t fuelled by self-doubt. It’s an essential ingredient. It’s the grit in the oyster.” ― Richard Eyre
46. “I don’t really admire musicianship per se – as is obvious from my own playing.” ― Lemmy
47. “I’m just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.” ― Logan Lerman
48. “The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.” ― Jackson Katz
49. “The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.” ― Gerard Manley Hopkins
50. “The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.” ― Oscar de la Renta
51. “All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.” ― Asa Don Brown
52. “Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?” ― Ayn Rand
53. “I don’t admire the person who does what they want to do. I admire the person who does what they’re afraid to do.” ― Donna Lynn Hope
54. “I don’t think there’s any better education than learning the intimate details of the lives of people who you most admire.” ― Brandon Stanton
55. “It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
56. “Love is an admiration that comes with patience. Lust is an admiration that comes with impatience. In all, admiration is common but patience is not!” ― Israelmore Ayivor
57. “The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.” ― Mary Schmich
58. “The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life.” ― Shannon L. Alder
59. “There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.” ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
60. “We can all learn something from people we admire.” ― Chris Gardner
61. “A starry night moon looks at you with admiration because in her eyes you are a star.” ― Debasish Mridha
62. “Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.” ― Evan Esar
63. “Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality.” ― Auliq Ice
64. “Admire the efforts of a failure like you admire the beauty of a sunset.” ― Amit Kalantri
65. “Appreciate the creation, respect the creator of it, and admire the source of all creativity.” ― T.F. Hodge
66. “Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
67. “Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.” ― Amit Kalantri
68. “Talent is an art of gaining admiration!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
69. “The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire.” ― Aspen Matis
70. “You will always be left with how you feel about other people if you don’t just take in the way you think and tell them how you feel about them.” ― Auliq Ice
71. “A great many people confuse attention with admiration, they think a stunt is an achievement and misbehavior a declaration of independence.” ― Abhijit Naskar
72. “Admiration is the feeling you get when you find that someone is superior to you, or someone is better than you in certain ways.” ― Dr. Prem Jagyasi
73. “Admiring a creative soul at work is almost as satisfying as making your own paintings.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri
74. “Don’t overestimate yourself because of compliments and don’t underestimate yourself because of criticism.” ― Amit Kalantri
75. “Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty.” ― Vironika Tugaleva
76. “If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
77. “Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
78. “Occasional criticism is better than the constant admiration.” ― Amit Kalantri
79. “People fall in love with you not because they admire you, it is because they found their desires inside of you.” ― Debasish Mridha
80. “Stop admiring and appreciating people so that they may realize your worth.” ― Amit Abraham
81. “The one who loves power becomes dictator and one who admires power becomes a slave.” ― Amit Kalantri
82. “The person who is openly loved by someone who is admired by so many people is bound to draw the envy, if not the hatred, of others.” ― Elif Shafak
83. “We spend so much wasted energy trying to be as impressive as those we admire, failing to grasp how impressive we already are to those who quietly admire us.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
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