Quotes about Admiration

He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him.

Oh, you dear good father! cried Mary, putting her hands round her father's neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world! Nonsense, child; you'll think your husband better. Impossible, said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that—to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was amazed at the size. Would I ever be big enough to fill his shoes? Could I ever grow into the man my father was? I wondered.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause. The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depth by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.

Ladies, whose bright eyes rain influence, and judge the prize.