Admiration Quotes and Sayings

“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

“Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.” ― Edmund Burke

“There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never
Rises from the soul, and sways
The heart of every single hearer,
With deepest power, in simple ways.
You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,
Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,
Blowing on a miserable fire,
Made from your heap of dying ash.
Let apes and children praise your art,
If their admiration’s to your taste,
But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,
Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.” ― Immanuel Kant

“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl…I have ever met since…I met you.” ― Oscar Wilde

“To a man, sex is the ultimate expression of love. It is pure pleasure. But to a woman there exists something greater than pleasure―gestures of adoration. A gentle caress on the cheek, an attentive smile, a soft kiss while swept away in a slow dance, the whispered words ‘You’re beautiful’―these are the tokens of love that women cherish.” ― Richelle Goodrich

“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.” – Atlas Shrugged

“It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.” – Hermann Hesse

“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

“We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.” – Mitt Romney