Quotes about Admiration

If humility is the first, the all-inclusive grace of the life of Jesus—if humility is the secret of His atonement—then the health and strength of our spiritual life will depend entirely upon our putting this grace first and making humility the chief quality we admire in Him, the chief attribute we ask of Him, the one thing for which we sacrifice all else.

We must make humility the chief thing we admire in Him, the chief thing we ask of Him, and the one thing for which we sacrifice all else.

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Let the cymbals of popularity tinkle still. Let the butterflies of fame glitter with their wings. I shall envy neither their music nor their colors.

Hero-worship is innate to human nature, and it is founded on some of our noblest feelings,—gratitude, love, and admiration.—but which, like all other feelings, when uncontrolled by principle and reason, may easily degenerate into the wildest exaggerations, and lead to most dangerous consequences.

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.