Admiration for Others Quotes

A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

I kept looking [at Katie] and thinking, 'This woman's amazing.' I'm happy that I'm with her. She's amazing, and I'd think the same of her even if she wasn't with me - she's just amazing.

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

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.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.

Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

There are a lot of people I look up to and respect, but there's nobody really specific I would call a hero.

Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.

Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).

The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.

What is it that you love in others?--My hopes.