Quotes about Admirable

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. Votes: 4

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart. Votes: 4

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. Votes: 4

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. Votes: 4

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. Votes: 4

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Votes: 4

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Votes: 4

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war. Votes: 4

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. Votes: 4

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. Votes: 4

A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement. Votes: 3

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. Votes: 3

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. Votes: 3

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. Votes: 3

To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. Votes: 3

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides. Votes: 3

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable. Votes: 3

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. Votes: 3

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book. Votes: 3

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects. Votes: 3

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there. Votes: 3

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand. Votes: 3

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life. Votes: 3

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. Votes: 3

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. Votes: 3

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. Votes: 1

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance. Votes: 1

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. Votes: 1

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. Votes: 1

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable. Votes: 1

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. Votes: 1

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. Votes: 1

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate. Votes: 1

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest. Votes: 1

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. Votes: 1

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in. Votes: 1

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. Votes: 1

Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable. Votes: 1

Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette. Votes: 1

I love soccer, love tennis... Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles... The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable... He is so calm... In soccer, I'm a huge fan of Barcelona... I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa. Votes: 1

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters. Votes: 1

Education is an admirable thing. Votes: 0

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress. Votes: 0

Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable. Votes: 0

Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable. Votes: 0

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Votes: 0

The best companion and helper is admirable morals. Votes: 0

My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable. Votes: 0

5. You feel he has a lot of admirable qualities. Votes: 0

It is at night that faith in light is admirable. Votes: 0

...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. Votes: 0

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method. Votes: 0

There are so many things admirable people do not understand. Votes: 0

People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable. Votes: 0

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs Votes: 0

Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality! Votes: 0

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. Votes: 0

The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them. Votes: 0

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers. Votes: 0

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional Votes: 0

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable. Votes: 0

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. Votes: 0

It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present. Votes: 0

Someone who plays hard every shift, it's pretty admirable for a young guy. Votes: 0

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. Votes: 0

The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's, Votes: 0

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics. Votes: 0

Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it. Votes: 0

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working. Votes: 0

My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable. Votes: 0

If a leader demonstrates competency, genuine concern for others, and admirable character, people will follow. Votes: 0

He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. Votes: 0

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality. Votes: 0

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth. Votes: 0

There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable. Votes: 0

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught. Votes: 0

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster. Votes: 0

I always think it's far more admirable to confuse people than it is to reassure them. Votes: 0

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance Votes: 0

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. Votes: 0

I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people. Votes: 0

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way. Votes: 0

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. Votes: 0

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect. Votes: 0

Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people. Votes: 0

I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks. Votes: 0

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating. Votes: 0

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. Votes: 0

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. Votes: 0

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. Votes: 0

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others. Votes: 0

Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence. Votes: 0

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition. Votes: 0

Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards. Votes: 0

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. Votes: 0

McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales. Votes: 0

The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification. Votes: 0

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them. Votes: 0

To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard. Votes: 0

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. Votes: 0

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable. Votes: 0

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth. Votes: 0

I was lucky enough to have been born on this planet earth, in this admirable country of the United States of America. Votes: 0

So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think. Votes: 0

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. Votes: 0

God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes. Votes: 0

Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement Votes: 0

To move forth and grab your destiny is admirable. To shape your own future with the strength in your fist is beyond that. Votes: 0

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. Votes: 0

To help someone who is down on their luck is admirable. To help an adversary who is down on their luck is divine. Votes: 0

Our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable as it is dangerous ... our impatience to better the lot of our fellows. Votes: 0

Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue. Votes: 0

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius. Votes: 0

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait. Votes: 0

The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect. It's not admirable to want love, it just is. Votes: 0

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait Votes: 0

The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning. Votes: 0

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower. Votes: 0

Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable. Votes: 0

I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable when creating content across the board: in television, books, newspapers, radio, videos. Votes: 0

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization. Votes: 0

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. Votes: 0

For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly. Votes: 0

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality. Votes: 0

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in." Votes: 0

It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable. Votes: 0

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon. Votes: 0

It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant. Votes: 0

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God. Votes: 0

When you stop admiring yourself and let the eyes of the heart open your vision to vast other worlds then all you do, will become admirable Votes: 0

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence. Votes: 0

There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend. Votes: 0

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond. Votes: 0

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Votes: 0

There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief by well-intentioned people. Votes: 0

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said. Votes: 0

Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and even humility. Votes: 0

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours. Votes: 0

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites. Votes: 0

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man. Votes: 0

I hope that I have gained the reputation of being someone that would do anything. I think that that's an admirable reputation to have if you're an actor. Votes: 0

U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans. Votes: 0

A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it. Votes: 0

You have to really want to be a Navy SEAL. The passion you need to endure the rigors of training, to become the best of the best... It's admirable. Votes: 0

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals -- for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding. Votes: 0

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb. Votes: 0

Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else. Votes: 0

In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when you're the underdog. Votes: 0

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in. Votes: 0

As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment. Votes: 0

There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them. Votes: 0

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. Votes: 0

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough. Votes: 0

I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness. Votes: 0

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel. Votes: 0

What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior. Votes: 0

I think we are warranted in contending that a society thus constituted, and which may be rendered so admirable an engine of improvement, far from meriting reproach, deserves highly of the community. Votes: 0

The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a stand, and it will twist itself or untwist, according as the air is moist or dry. Votes: 0

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. Votes: 0

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are. Votes: 0

She always had that about her, the sparkle in her eye, she was unshakeable and what made her so admirable was; her ability to shine bright when no one knew of her pain. Votes: 0

I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations. Votes: 0

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families. Votes: 0

At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, heroes and heroines grow not only into a perfect match, but into stronger, better, more admirable people. Votes: 0

Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that. Votes: 0

Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them. Votes: 0

O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine. Votes: 0

David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation [into] that historic and troubling event. Votes: 0

Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course. Votes: 0

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art. Votes: 0

I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation. Votes: 0

The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging or scrubbing. The colour stays where it is put. Votes: 0

The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?" Stannis snorted. "Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well. Votes: 0

Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard. Votes: 0

A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking somebody in the eye, shaking hands and being friendly under duress. Votes: 0

We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable. Votes: 0

Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths that a child may comprehend, and mysteries into which angels desire to look. Votes: 0

Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve. Votes: 0