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Quotes About Admiration

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.
~ Alain Prost
Rahul is the kind of person who young cricketers can look up to; not only because of his success but also because of the way he conducts himself.
~ Steve Waugh
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
~ Joseph Roux
I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.
~ Kathleen Winsor
Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure
~ Anne Fadiman
You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.
~ Lara Flynn Boyle
What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.
~ Dave Matthews
I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.
~ Derek Jeter
Instead of Criticizing Someone's Success, Why Not Learn Something Valuable from It?
~ Ernie J Zelinski
I love seeing my husband having success.
~ Heather Dubrow
Sachin Tendulkar is already a 'Bharat Ratna' for Indian people because of his phenomenal success and the manner in which he has served Indian cricket for years.
~ Rahul Dravid
Captain or mate, M. Morrel, I shall always have the greatest respect for those who possess the owners' confidence.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Oh ! madame, si vous êtes si instamment attendue, permettez-moi de m'éloigner, car il me serait impossible de vous parler en ce moment. Je suis incapable de rassembler deux idées ; votre vue m'a ébloui. Je ne pense plus, j'admire.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Woman is sacred. The woman one loves is holy.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Cuando quiero oír música admirable, vizconde, como ningún mortal la ha oído, duermo.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Monte Cristo could not let this proof of affection go unacknowledged, and it not his hand but both arms that he opened to greet him, saying, in a voice full of emotion: 'Morrel, it is a fine day for me when I feel myself to have gained the affection of a man such as you.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Ne savez-vous point que vous êtes mon soleil pendant le jour et mon étoile pendant la nuit ? En vérité je me croyais dans l'obscurité la plus profonde, lorsque vous avez paru tout à l'heure et avez soudain tout éclairé.
~ Alexandre Dumas
A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
It's your face, poor darling. You're ashamed of your tiger face; but I love it. You burn so brightly for me. You burn through the blindness. Believe me...
~ Alfred Bester
I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question.
~ Alice Hoffman
There he is, in the fading light, certain of what he wants, certain of her. If Gillian were speaking to her sister, or more correctly, if Sally were speaking to her, Gillian would draw her over to the window to get a look. Isn't he beautiful? That's what she would have said if she and Sally had been talking. I wish I deserved him, she would have whispered into her sister's ear.
~ Alice Hoffman
a quotation that had been her favorite, written by the poet she most admired. Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality. Unbeknownst to Jet, Franny had added another line beneath her sister's name. Beloved by all.
~ Alice Hoffman
Sister St. Saviour did, of course. But the woman, childless, stubborn, coming to the close of her life, had a mad heart. Mad for mercy, perhaps, mad for her own authority in all things—a trait Annie had come to love and admire—but mad nonetheless. Riding home from the cemetery, Sister St. Saviour had said, "It would be a different Church if I were running it.
~ Alice McDermott