These admission quotes will inspire you. Admission is a statement acknowledging the truth of something or the process or fact of entering or being allowed to enter a place, organization, or institution.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging admission quotes, admission sayings, and admission proverbs.
Best Admission Quotes
- “Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.” ~ Henry A. Kissinger
- “Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.” ~ Derek Bok
- “A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world’s ignorance and press for admission.” ~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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“Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.” ~ Julia Cameron
- “Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.” ~ Henry A. Kissinger
- “I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.” ~ Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
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“You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.” ~ Edgar Bergen
- “Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.” ~ Fulton J. Sheen
- “In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one’s beloved.” ~ Russell Baker
- “It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.” ~ Richard P. Feynman
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“A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.” ~ Will Rogers
- “However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.” ~ Frederick Reines
- “The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.” ~ Quintilian
- “To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.” ~ Aldous Huxley
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“The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
- “The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
- “No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teenagers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.” ~ Max Lerner
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“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” ~ John Bunyan
- “Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
- “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don’t know.” ~ Roy Romer
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“In a town church the right place for the admission of light.” ~ George Edmund Street
- “ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they’re getting the business.” ~ Robert Sternberg
- “A sequel is an admission that you’ve been reduced to imitating yourself.” ~ Don Marquis
- “Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity – but not of terrorist sympathies.” ~ Richard Perle
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“There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.” ~ Alfred Hitchcock
- “Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.” ~ Eleanor Clift
- “By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren’t.” ~ Mitch McConnell
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“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “What I’d really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.” ~ Mindy Kaling
- “African American children can’t be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.” ~ Chaka Fattah
- “You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.” ~ Roy Romer
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“One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.” ~ Nassau William Senior
- “I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.” ~ Ralph Allen
- “If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.” ~ George Carlin
- “Without country, you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a Country for yourselves.” ~ Giuseppe Mazzini
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“Nothing dispels enthusiasm like a small admission fee.” ~ Kin Hubbard
- “Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.” ~ Stephen Covey
- “I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bathhouse. Objecting to sex discrimination being the reason for rejection of Emmy Noether’s application to join the faculty at the University of Gottingen.” ~ David Hilbert
- “Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it’s no big deal. They are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it, I transcend all this meaningless gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.” ~ Hubert Selby, Jr.
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“Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.” ~ Rick Warren
- “Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else’s slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of the self, an admission of impotence, an offense against generosity and justice. Our freedom depends on other people’s freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others’, especially with those we love.” ~ Hakim Bey
- “Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my admission. Are you? When no one is looking, I check to see if anyone seems as scared as me, or lonely, or shy, or insecure. Is it just me? I’m not so sure. Is your heart an onion too? Show me yours, I’ll show you mine we used to say. Your turn. Peel away.” ~ Nikki Grimes
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“That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.” ~ Quintilian
- “Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth, power and talents are not necessary to the person of a Freemason. An unblemished character and a virtuous conduct are the only qualifications for admission into the Order.” ~ Andrew Jackson
- “As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests: by war the issue is left to chance, and the tacit assumption that the best man will win is not at all justified. It might equally be argued that the worst, the most unscrupulous man will win, although history will continue the absurd game by finding him after all the best man.” ~ Germaine Greer
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“Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, – our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.” ~ Mary Baker Eddy
- “We are called to be fruitful – not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.” ~ Henri Nouwenr
- “When the atheist is told that God is unknowable, he may interpret this claim in one of two ways. He may suppose, first, that the theist has acquired knowledge of a being that, by his own admission, cannot possibly be known; or, second, he may assume that the theist simply does not know what he is talking about.” ~ George H. Smith
- “The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on those who doubt them. What harmonizing shows is that despite appearances, the texts still might be true.” ~ Robert M. Price
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“I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It’s an admission that one grows in life.” ~ Henry A. Kissinge
- “The Republicans are calling the Democrats’ plan to have a deadline for US troop withdrawal from Iraq an ‘admission of failure’, as opposed to the Republican plan which is ‘failure without admission’.” ~ Jon Stewart
- “At the local government level, policies must be championed to increase the number of instructional hours in our schools as well as make the process of admission easier in order to enroll and keep a higher number of students in class.” ~ Shaheen Mistri
- “I’d just like to say “thank you” to President Bush and to the men and women of the US military, who by the New York Times’ own admission took out a terror-sponsoring regime in Iraq that could have constructed a nuclear weapon within months, as soon as sanctions were lifted enough for them to obtain sufficient fissile material.” ~ Charles Foster Johnson
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“He’s the kind of player that is worth the price of admission.” ~ Jay Feaster
- “American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure. But some of the most powerful, successful, admired people in the world seem, to me, to have something in common: they ask constantly, creatively, compassionately, and gracefully. And to be sure: when you ask, there’s always the possibility of a no on the other side of the request. If we don’t allow for that no, we’re not actually asking, we’re either begging or demanding. But it is the fear of the no that keeps so many of our mouths sewn tightly shut.” ~ Amanda Palmer
- “On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.” ~ Malcolm Bradbury
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“In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.” ~ Amy Vanderbilt
- “I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women keep house so badly or with such wastefulness as chancellors of the exchequer keep the state.” ~ Theodore Parker
- “If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.” ~ Lenny Bruce
