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Quotes About Admiration

If you are already established in a group, temporary withdrawal from it will make you more talked about, even more admired. You must learn when to leave. Create value through scarcity.
~ Robert Greene
The more you are seen and heard from, the more common you appear. If you are already established in a group, temporary withdrawal from it will make you more talked about, even more admired. You must learn when to leave. Create value through scarcity.
~ Robert Greene
Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please and impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite—inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.
~ Robert Greene
The more mystery surrounds your actions, the more awesome your power seems. You appear to be the only one who can do what you do—and the appearance of having an exclusive gift is immensely powerful. Finally, because you achieve your accomplishments with grace and ease, people believe that you could always do more if you tried harder. This elicits not only admiration but a touch of fear. Your powers are untapped—no one can fathom their limits.
~ Robert Greene
Find Inspiration from Your Heroes
~ Robert Greene
Everything that is rare is expensive: the more you are seen, the more you are heard, and the more ordinary you seem. If you are part of a group, step away for a while and you will be talked about more, and even admired more. Practice absence: scarcity will increase your value.
~ Robert Greene
Boldness directs attention outward and keeps the illusion alive. It never induces awkwardness or embarrassment. And so we admire the bold, and prefer to be around them, because their self-confidence infects us and draws us outside our own realm of inwardness and reflection.
~ Robert Greene
If people with natural gifts also possess a good work ethic and have some luck in life, envy will follow them wherever they go.
~ Robert Greene
What withdraws, what becomes scarce, suddenly seems to deserve our respect and honor.
~ Robert Greene
People who are envious cannot help feeling some glee when they hear of the bad luck of those they envy.
~ Robert Greene
Soon the sky began to turn a starlit lavender. Many looked up and admired it, for it was often said that when you are no longer moved by the last stages of dusk in the Mexican desert, it is time to shake the hand of your Maker.
~ Robert Hough
Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.
~ Robert Jordan
yet not a quarter so well as you display yourself, for night-blooming dara lilies would weep with envy to see you stroll beside the moonlit water, as I would do, and make myself a bard to sing your praises by this very moon.
~ Robert Jordan
We can learn so much from them, y'know--just by watching them. They've been at it all night. They just don't stop--they're resilient. They eat until it's gone and then they're content. I almost admire them. The thing you have to realize is that they're just us--they're no different. They want what they want, they take what they want and after they get what they want--they're only content for the briefest span of time. Then they want more.
~ Robert Kirkman
One day Nagle paid him the highest compliment by saying, "When you die no one will ever find your body.
~ Robert Kurson
We can only admire others if we have a sense of our own worthiness, and a developing sense of security about our own creative energies.
~ Robert L. Moore
Yeah, tell me I'm a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That's the way to my heart.
~ L.J. Smith
But I'd rather look like you than be pretty, she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
~ L.M. Montgomery
Yes, red-to give warmth to that milk-white skin and those shining gray-green eyes of yours. Golden hair wouldn't suit you at all Queen Anne-My Queen Anne-queen of my heart and life and home.
~ L.M. Montgomery
After all, it was nice to be loved than to be rich and admired and famous.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Anne looked up. Tall and handsome and distinguished-looking—dark, melancholy, inscrutable eyes—melting, musical, sympathetic voice—yes, the very hero of her dreams stood before her in the flesh. He could not have more closely resembled her ideal if he
~ L.M. Montgomery
I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them. - Miss Barry
~ L.M. Montgomery