When we admire a person, we are showing both respect and recognition of their efforts. It is a way of having someone as a reference, so that it serves as a compass about what we should aim for.
To understand this feeling, in this article we will see a selection of the best admiration phrases commented.
This is a compilation of the best reflections and quotes about admiration that help understand this human experience based on the desire to be like someone or take an example from that person.
1. The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. (Charles Kuralt)
We never stop appreciating the recognition that the people we love give us.
2. The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. (Carl Sandburg)
Excessive desire corrupts us.
3. Anyone who follows the road less traveled is admirable. (Kevin McCloud)
An admirable person is one who follows his dreams.
4. We admire things for reasons, but we love them without reasons. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
That is the true essence of appreciation.
5. Admiration is the strongest foundation that exists in a relationship. (Nathaniel Branden)
Every relationship needs the recognition of the other.
6. Admiration and familiarity are strangers. (George Sand)
Sometimes it is strangers who admire us the most or vice versa.
7. No one has been able to teach me what my parents have given me with their example.
There are parents who deserve all our admiration.
8. Tell me who admires you and who loves you, and I will tell you who you are. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
There are people who only flatter to obtain some benefit.
9. Admire those who try great things, even when they fail. (Seneca)
It is better to try something and fail than to let ourselves be carried away by fear.
10. They say that a man is not a man until he hears his name from the lips of a woman. (Antonio Machado)
There are different types of admiration.
11. Learn to admire others. It is the first step to overcome your ego. (Ehsan Sehgal)
An excellent way to prevent arrogance from blinding us.
12. If you go down with dignity, you will be admired as if you were going up! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
It’s not all about winning, it’s about knowing when to quit.
13. I admire brave people… not those who think they are strong or those who fight to prove something… brave people. (Anonymous)
An excellent recommendation to admire.
14. It is scary to think that perhaps the most sincere admirations we have are those of people who have not understood us. (Benito Pérez Galdós)
Blind flattery.
15. We always admire what we don’t really understand. (Blaise Pascal)
The impact that mysteries have on us.
16. There are people who know that they are not worth much, but do not know how much they are worth.
A sad reality.
17. When bowing deeply to one, one always turns one’s back to another. (Abbot Galiani)
It is necessary to maintain a balance.
18. Stay away from contempt and admiration, because both go hand in hand, alternating. Get closer to sincerity, even if it hurts.
Be careful not to be blinded by those you admire.
19. Something that is learned in the midst of plagues: that there are more things in men worthy of admiration than contempt. (Albert Camus)
It is in difficult moments when we know the true value of people.
20. To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. (Theophile Gautier)
Two ways to admire.
21. Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. (Ann Landers)
It is necessary to know ourselves to be able to face the world correctly.
22. That the man whom average people admire will never be capable of great things. (Concepción Arenal)
Don’t stay in your comfort zone, if you want to move forward.
23. Admiring a creative soul at work is almost as satisfying as making your own paintings. (EA Bucchianeri)
A way to find motivation and show respect.
24. Humility is a very strange thing. The very moment we think we have it we have already lost it. (San Agustin)
There are those who take pride in their humility, as if they owned it.
25. I have great admiration for people who have been in a relationship for a long time, married for years. (Paloma Faith)
A sign that things can last.
26. Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. (Benjamin Franklin)
Sometimes we esteem people who don’t deserve it.
27. The best legacy my grandfather has left me is the tremendous admiration I feel towards him.
It is actions that determine how others will see us.
28. Just as those who love want that love to be reciprocal, those who admire want to be admired in return. (Paul Hudson)
Many feelings are reciprocal.
29. Protect me from the wisdom that does not cry, from the philosophy that does not laugh and from the greatness that does not bow before children. (Gibran)
If there is anything to praise, it is the things that bring positivity to the world.
30. Two things admire me: the intelligence of beasts and the bestiality of men. (Tristan Bernard)
Things that never cease to surprise us.
31. The more narcissistic the leader, the greater the need to obtain admiration from others and the security they crave. (Naomi Shragai)
A selfish admiration.
32. Mutual admiration is the key to success in any type of collaboration. (Frazier Tharpe)
A way to strengthen alliances.
33. If you want to give up the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead and get married. (Katharine Hepburn)
A fun reference to marriage.
34. Distance is a great promoter of admiration. (Denis Diderot)
Distance as a motivator.
35. Blessed is he who has learned to admire, but not to envy, to follow, but not to imitate, to praise, but not to flatter, to lead, but not to manipulate. (William Arthur Ward)
The correct ways to act.
36. Some people are shaped by their admirations, others by their hostilities. (Elizabeth Bowen)
It all depends on the examples we decide to follow.
37. Admiration is frozen love. (Françoise Sagan)
A sign of affection.
38. It is always more valuable to have people’s respect than admiration. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Respect is genuine, but not all admiration is real.
39. The beginning of all knowledge is admiration at the fact that things are the way they are. (Aristotle)
Respect for things.
40. I like those people who, even if they know they are not going to get what they want, try until they can’t take it anymore.
When we try, we acquire more capabilities to grow.
41. Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it dissuades us from fighting to possess it. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The power of convincing.
42. I have great respect and admiration for people who put themselves in the line of fire. (Major Owens)
Those who risk their lives for the well-being of others can be seen as heroes.
43. What surprises surprises once, but what is admirable is more so the more it is admired. (Joseph Joubert)
It is something that has a great continuous impact on us.
44. Close your lips in anger, open them in admiration. (Ipsit Bibhu Darshi)
Be careful with the things you say.
45. The earth incites man’s amazement and admiration, although he is imperfect and his understanding is very limited. (Joseph F. Rutherford)
Everything can change, even our thoughts.
46. For your kindness I am indebted to you. She has my admiration for her selflessness. (Natalie Merchant)
Give as you receive.
47. Our admiration for antiquity is not an admiration for what is ancient, but for what is natural. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It is a respect for the culture.
48. A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes to achieve affection. (Arthur Helps)
A very peculiar mix.
49. Do so that you are admired and not what belongs to you. (Juvenal)
What gets respect are your actions, not your belongings.
50. You have always done the same thing, confusing love with admiration. (Amy Ryan)
They are two opposite things.
51. He who keeps a compliment to himself, keeps something foreign to himself. (Pablo Picasso)
Never hide the feelings you have towards someone.
52. The greatest satisfaction of a father is feeling admired by his children.
An achievement that is truly proud.
53. Between flattery and admiration, sometimes a river of contempt flows. (Antrim Mine)
Therefore, you must know that not all compliments are honest.
54. Admiration bestowed on anyone except us is always tedious. (Honoré de Balzac)
It’s about flattering others as much as ourselves.
55. We always love those who admire us, but not always those we admire. (François de la Rochefoucauld)
That is why we should never keep our feelings to ourselves.
56. Instead of criticizing people, try to admire God’s creative work. (Richelle E. Goodrich)
Before criticizing someone, try to get to know them.
57. Your admirers make you strong and brave. Your detractors make you successful. (Sanjeev Himachali)
Everyone brings you something.
58. A woman’s intuition is more accurate than a man’s certainty. (Rudyard Kipling)
A reflection on the gender roles in which men and women fit.
59. Admiration does not provide salvation to the unwelcome. (AJ Darkholme)
It is above all, a recognition.
60. There are three things that admiration has confirmed; the lack of autonomy, the senility of the mind and the force of despair. (Lionel Suggs)
A harsh criticism of admiration.
61. I like those people who make everything out of nothing.
People who create wonders.
62. It is more difficult to make admiration last than to provoke it. (Joseph Sanial-Dubay)
Many things don’t last long enough.
63. What gets you help is not pity, but admiration when you refuse to give up. (Suzanne Collins)
Never refuse the help offered.
64. It is easy to be admired when you remain inaccessible. (André Maurois)
Admiration and the unattainable going hand in hand.
65. Admiration begins where knowledge ceases. (Samuel Johnson)
When ignorance leads us to admire something.
66. The gift of admiration is essential if you want to achieve something. (Thomas Mann)
Admiration gives us reasons to move forward.
67. It is not the beauty of a person that you should admire, it is the purity of that which deserves your admiration. (Karon Waddell)
Don’t get carried away by appearances, because this is not everything when it comes to getting to know someone.
68. Women need beauty for men to love us, and stupidity for us to love men. (Coco Chanel)
A strange way to get love.
69. I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire, and have someone who feels the same way about me. (Richard Bach)
A beautiful reciprocity.
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70. Irrationality and inferiority are the progenitors of admiration. (Lionel Suggs)
An empty admiration.
71. That which is dark can also be the most beautiful thing.
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
72. Motherly love is always great, but it becomes sublime when it is mixed with admiration for the beloved child. (Angel Ganivet)
The admiration between parents and children is perhaps the most real.
73. This is the mark of a truly admirable man: firmness in the face of affliction. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Continue despite everything.
74. Admiration is our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves. (Ambrose Bierce)
A way to define admiration.
75. Admire the efforts that lead to failure as much as the beauty of the sunset. (Amit Kalantri)
Efforts that deserve to be recognized.
76. Not only does the artist observe his art with admiration, art also observes its artist with admiration. (Mehmet Murat İldan)
A symbiotic relationship.
77. The only things that can be admired in detail are those that you admire without knowing why. (Jean Rostand)
You don’t need to have a fixed reason to admire something or someone.
78. Nothing is more worthy of admiration in a noble man than knowing how to accept and imitate the virtues of others. (Confucius)
Follow the examples that lead you to a more positive life.
79. Stopping to admire is proof of deterioration. (Charles Horton Cooley)
Failing to recognize the work of another is a sign of arrogance.
80. Admiration is the feeling most opposite to understanding. (Tite Kubo)
Another criticism of admiration.
81. Nothing lifts a man above the pettiness of life as much as admiring whatever he is or whoever he is. (Thomas Carlyle)
A devastating motivating force.
82. A starry moon looks at you with admiration because in its eyes you are a star. (Debasish Mridha)
A metaphor that explains admiration.
83. A student never forgets a word of encouragement when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. (William Lyon Phelps)
Those teachers who know how to lead are the most remembered.
84. The thing is that to admire you need greatness, although it may seem paradoxical. (Ernesto Sabato)
An exclusive requirement?
85. It is the attention and admiration of a woman that a man desperately desires. (Sanjay Velayudhan)
What some expect in a relationship.
86. Admire everything you would like to be and have not yet achieved.
Keep your dreams in mind.
87. The poet never asks for admiration, he only wants to be believed. (Jean Cocteau)
The goal of poets.
88. I don’t envy your talent and I’m not jealous of your beauty either, but I do admire both. (Richard L. Ratliff)
Envy prevents us from recognizing the talent of others.
Related article: “The types of jealousy and their different characteristics”
89. A woman can change a man’s life trajectory. (Severo Ochoa)
The power of women in a relationship.
90. We will not be well as long as we love and admire something more than we love and admire God. (C.S. Lewis)
I’m Emily Williams Jones, a psychologist specializing in mental health with a focus on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness. With a Ph.D. in psychology, my career has spanned research, clinical practice and private counseling. I’m dedicated to helping individuals overcome anxiety, depression and trauma by offering a personalized, evidence-based approach that combines the latest research with compassionate care.
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