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A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging admirable quotes, admirable sayings, and admirable proverbs.
Famous Admirable Quotes
- “Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.” ~ Rex Stout
- “Although it’s admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it’s more desirable to be smart-working.” ~ John C. Maxwell
- “To be one’s self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.” ~ Irving Wallace
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“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.” ~ Larry Winget
- “There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.” ~ Homer
- “There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.” ~ Phil Callaway
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“Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable, and noble kind of love.” ~ Delmore Schwartz
- “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.” ~ Shinichi Suzuki
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“I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.” ~ Ben Kingsley
- “To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine.” ~ Christopher Jones
- “Humor is one of the elements of genius–admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.” ~ Sean O Faolain
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“There are admirable potentialities in every human being.” ~ Andre Gide
- “Alfred Nobel’s discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.” ~ Pierre Curie
- “The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.” ~ Vladimir Nabokov
- “Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.” ~ Blaise Pascal
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“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
- “Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation, they make for disagreement. Through them, we become aware of our differences.” ~ Andre Gide
- “A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.” ~ Edna Ferber
- “Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples, and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.” ~ William Martin
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“I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.” ~ Lord Chesterfield
- “At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?” ~ Phil McGraw
- “This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave overhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.” ~ Victor Hugo
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“People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.” ~ Helen Hayes
- “The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to fly off in a temper. The man who would control others must be able to control himself. There is something admirable, something inspiring, something soul-stirring about a man who displays coolness and courage under extremely trying circumstances. A good temper is not only a business asset. It is the secret of health. The longer you live, the more you will learn that a disordered temper breeds a disordered body.” ~ B. C. Forbes
- “Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “I think it’s an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life’s been rough for you. That’s a really admirable way to go through your life.” ~ Anna Paquin
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“The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.” ~ Thomas Huxley
- “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.” ~ Jose Marti
- “A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.” ~ Anita Brookner , Admirable quotes woman
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“Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.” ~ Hilaire Belloc
- “This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.” ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
- “Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don’t need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.” ~ Mariane Pearl
- “To me there is nothing so admirable as a passionate love-bond between two human begins. Sam loves Frodo and wants to protect him and Frodo is extremely protective of Sam. So what you have are these two people locked into this journey together. They don’t need to explain what they are to each other, they don’t need to talk about it; they just are.” ~ Sean Astin , Admirable quotes love
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“By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.” ~ Socrates
- “When you stop admiring yourself and let the eyes of the heart open your vision to vast other worlds then all you do will become admirable” ~ Rumi
- “The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.” ~ Michel de Montaigne , Admirable quotes man
- “If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.” ~ Voltaire
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“Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.” ~ William Godwin
- “Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part, I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.” ~ Voltaire
- “It is admirable to die the victim of one’s faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one’s ambition.” ~ Alphonse de Lamartine
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“Someone who plays hard every shift, it’s pretty admirable for a young guy.” ~ Marty Turco
- “Don’t be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overachiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.” ~ Martha Stewart
- “I have always admired men and women who used their talents to serve the community, and who were highly respected and admired for their efforts and sacrifices, even though they held no office whatsoever in government or society.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.” ~ Tacitus
- “When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.” ~ Philip Sidney
- “The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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“For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.” ~ John Calvin
- “[There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as ‘don’t pick your nose’ or ‘don’t eat peas with a knife’. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them.” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when pressed, the atheist will often attempt to hide his lack of conviction in his own beliefs behind some poorly formulated utilitarianism, or argue that he acts out of altruistic self-interest. But this is only post-facto rationalization, not reason or rational behavior.” ~ Theodore Beale
- “Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.” ~ Thomas de Quincey
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“Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.” ~ Walter J. Phillips
- “Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.” ~ William Bartram
- “A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, “What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains.”” ~ Aesop
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“Confidence, of course, is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptuous.” ~ P. G. Wodehouse
- “As to sagacity, I should say that his judgment respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible, his punctuality at mealtimes is admirable, and his pertinacity in jumping on people’s shoulders till they give him some of the best of what is going indicates great firmness.” ~ Thomas Huxley
- “It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.” ~ William Penn
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