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Quotes about Admiration

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families - all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.
- Michelle Obama
An upright man is always worth beholding—but then he is most to be admired when like a bright star, he shines in the dark, and having lost all, he holds fast his integrity.
- Thomas Watson
Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.
- Elton John
I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.
- Oscar Wilde
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.
- Oscar Wilde
I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
- Oscar Wilde
He went among vendors and beggars and wild street preachers haranguing a lost world with vigor unknown to the sane. Suttree admired them with their hot eyes and dogeared bibles, God's barkers gone forth into the world like the prophets of old.
- Cormac McCarthy
Be 'hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise,' and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime — repeat them years after you have forgotten them.
- Dale Carnegie
Principle 2 Give honest and sincere appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
Shocked? I consider Bob one of the constellations of our time — of our country — America — a bright, magnificent constellation. Besides, all the constellations—not alone of this but of any time—shock the average intelligence for a while. In one respect that helps to prove it a constellation. Think of Voltaire , Paine , Hicks, not to say anything of modern men whom we could mention. {Whitman's thoughts on his close friend, the great Robert Ingersoll }
- Walt Whitman
while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself. Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean, Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
- Walt Whitman
O all and each well-loved by me! my intrepid nations!
- Walt Whitman