These admire quotes will inspire you. Admire to feel respect and approval for (someone or something) or look at with pleasure.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging admire quotes, admire sayings, and admire proverbs.
Best Admire Quotes
- “When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.” Abraham Joshua Heschel
- “A leader is admired, a boss is feared.” Vicente del Bosque
- “I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don’t become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.” F. Sionil Jose
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“The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.” A.P. Herbert
- “The true artist is not proud: he, unfortunately, sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.”Ludwig van Beethoven
- “A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.”E.W. Howe
- “I am very fortunate to work with people I have seen on the screen so many times and admired, and they are in the public eye, and I have seen how they handle it. There are definitely ways to just keep on enjoying the profession and the work. Other people tell me that things are going to change.”Alicia Vikander
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“We can be shiny and perfect and admired, or we can be real and honest and vulnerable and loved. But we actually do have to choose.” Glennon Doyle Melton
- “That’s why I loved Dinah Washington. She sang jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That’s why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.”Andra Day , Admire quotes for her
- “A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.”Barbra Streisand
- “My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I’ve made that a passion.”Don Cornelius
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“The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.”Leon Edel
- “Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”Walt Whitman
- “I admired actors like Dilip Kumar and Om Puri as a kid and acting was all I ever thought about.”Paresh Rawal
- “There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.”Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Pete Rock, CL Smooth, all this East Coast stuff – that’s kind of, like, the rappers I first admired. I wanna rap just like them because I just thought they were so hard. I thought their delivery was so crazy.”Kyle
- “First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.”Queen Elizabeth II
- “Egotism is not a good quality. It’s not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn’t be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn’t be tolerated in a movie director.”John Milius
- “My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.”Jimmy Carter
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“The actors I admired were Bogart, Cagney, Cooper, Tracy. Great personalities. Real stars.”Jean-Paul Belmondo
- “Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it’s being a celebrity or a singer. Quite frankly, I didn’t move to Nashville and tell myself I wanted to be a singer because I wanted to be a celebrity or I wanted to be somebody that people admired. I wasn’t about that. I just loved music.”Jake Owen
- “There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.”Iris Apfel
- “Paul and I were friends, the Moody Blues toured with the Beatles on the second British tour. That developed into me working with Paul, whom I always admired.”Denny Laine
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“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- “Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable.”Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- “I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I thought he was one of the finest screen actors around.”Michael Caine
- “The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.”Chrystia Freeland
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“The good things of prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- “Brenda Starr is how I learned to draw. I copied her. I admired her. She had a career.”Marilyn Minter
- “I’ve always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They’d start with a single premise and talk for hours – the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.”Nicolas Roeg
- “Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.” Mark Zuckerberg , Admire quotes for him
- “Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work._Nikola Tesla
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“I was a Barcelona fan. My favorite player was Ronaldinho. But I watched a lot of English football and admired lots of English teams.”Sadio Mane
- “I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.,”Wendell Berry
- ” I always admired virtue – but I could never imitate it.”Charles II
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“Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.”Cleopatra
- “A decent man who doesn’t consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired.”Adam-Troy Castro
- “For me, the defender I respect the most is Giorgio Chiellini. He’s one of the best defenders in the world. I really like the way he plays football on the pitch, the way he defends. He lives for the game. He transmits a sense of tranquillity to his team-mates. I have always admired his way to play.”Edinson Cavani
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“I’m overjoyed and honored to become a member of the Hollywood Records family. I’ve admired the careers they’ve made and can’t wait to see how my musical path is paved out.”Lucy Hale
- “The India-China intercourse began from the era of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Both interacted with each other peacefully and conducted scholarly and ideological exchanges. Both loved and admired each other; never had there been a slight clash.”Sun Yat-sen
- “Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.”Bryant H. McGill
- “I was never a joiner. I tried – I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago… I guess I wasn’t a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I’m still here – but I’m only a binge socialite.”John Cusack
- “My goal was always to be working on the biggest stage in the world: Hollywood. Even when I was doing ‘The Bill,’ I approached the work like it was a Hollywood classic such as ‘Training Day’ or ‘Boyz n the Hood.’ So to have worked with some of the greats I’ve admired, such as Forest Whitaker, Kathy Bates, Cuba Gooding Jr., etc., it warms me.”Aml Ameen
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“I always admired Frank Sinatra. He had ups and downs, but he didn’t give up his style. He had what might have been a tough life or character.”Ralph Lauren
- “I’d always admired Sean Connery. Even though I wonder about some of his choices, I like him even in bad movies.”Liam Cunningham
- “I have always admired women that have a strong sense of self, complemented by femininity. I especially appreciate the presence of these women in traditionally male-dominated industries, such as real estate.”Ivanka Trump
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“The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.”Jean Cocteau
- ‘I’d always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.”Nick Flynn
- “It was an absolute pleasure working with Stephen Graham. I’ve admired his work for many years, and what he brings is that real sense of authenticity.”Jed Mercurio
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‘I always admired Walt’s optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.’John Hench
- “My sister was the glamourous one and her movies portrayed her beauty and glamour. As a person, she has enormous patience and has single-handedly supported my mother and my siblings. I have always admired her loyalty to the family.”Sowcar Janaki
- ‘The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in ‘Tinker, Tailor,’ was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I’m such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.’John le Carre
- ‘I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating singers I admired – Alison Moyet, Boy George, later on Nina Simone.”Anohni
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“I have admired Taufik Hidayat for being exceptionally talented and Hendrawan for being a great player only because of his hard work and dedication. I have always looked up to them as players.”Lin Dan
- ‘My father did lots of things. He had an orange-juice factory. He did real estate. He did commercial selling. He was always up and about doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things and being adventurous. I always admired his self-discipline. He was very good at getting everything done. He was very tidy.”John Torode
- “The Police could get away with doing an entire record with really no audible reverb, which I have always admired and thought would be a lot of fun to try to re-create.”Jason Isbell
- ‘Modeling for a year taught me a lot. I got very involved in the fashion industry and met a bunch of people who I admired.”Hunter Schafer
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‘The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman, and have a French boyfriend.”Katharine Hepburn
- “Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest filmmakers of India; I had seen his films ‘Raincoat’ and ‘Chokher Bali’ and I had always admired his body of work.,”Deepti Naval
- “A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.”John Adams
- ‘I grew up watching Keira Knightley films nonstop, and I always admired period dramas and just everything that goes into it.”Jodie Comer
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“I always wanted the flowiness that hip-hop artists had. I always admired how they rapped so fast, but I never wanted to rap; I wanted to sing the rap.”Dua Lipa
- “As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn’t understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.”Leonard Cohen
- ‘I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.”Gale Gordon
- “I think Jane Fonda is to be admired for her stands.”Barbi Benton
