Admiration Quotes

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

I am king. I am lord. I am praiseworthy. I am important. I am magnificent. I am foremost. I am a hero. I am a warrior. I am a lion, and I am virile.

I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

My mother-in-law thinks I'm more beautiful than all the other faces around. She keeps encouraging me to take up more work.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

What motivates me is true talent, it's golden when talent acknowledge talent.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

When you're succeeding, and you're doing something right... As I've got haters, I know I'm doing something right.

I'm just so happy, and I'm grateful for my fans. I just hope I keep doing work that they love.

There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so, for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool.

The people never endeavor to ridicule those they love and esteem, nor will they suffer them to be ridiculed. If any one attempts it, their ridicule returns upon the author; he makes himself only the object of public hatred and contempt.

All fame is dangerous: Good, bringeth Envy; Bad, Shame.

My mother was the greatest mother in the world. She thought I was the greatest thing on two feet. I'd come home with a little composition I had written at school, and she'd look at it and say, 'It's wonderful! You're another Shakespeare!' I always assumed I could do anything. It really is amazing how much that has to do with your attitude.

Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

I admire Obama.

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise. The Japanese had an advantage over us in that they admired us more than we admired them. They could hate us more fervently than we could hate them. The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American (for Hoover or Roosevelt) is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners. It is of interest that the backward South shows more xenophobia than the rest of the country. Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.