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Quotes About Admiration

My style icon really for my whole life has been my mother.
~ Jessica Simpson
I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.
~ Harry Houdini
Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever.
~ Bindi Irwin
Respect means: even in your absence people speak good of your person
~ Constance Friday
Better an unsung HERO than the source of envy.
~ Haresh Sippy
When you can see and reveal the amazing beauty of others, you will be the kind of person that attracts others.
~ Debasish Mridha
It's not the beauty of a person you should admire. It is the purity of heart that deserves your admiration.
~ Karon Waddell
Beauty standsIn the admiration only of weak mindsLed captive.
~ John Milton
Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
~ John Milton
Ladies, whose bright eyesRain influence, and judge the prize.
~ John Milton
Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.
~ John Milton
A bevy of fair women.
~ John Milton
Long looking with admiration produces change. From your heroes you pick up mannerisms and phrases and tones of voice and facial expressions and habits and demeanors and convictions and beliefs. The more admirable the hero is and the more intense your admiration is, the more profound will be your transformation. In the case of Jesus, he is infinitely admirable, and our admiration rises to the most absolute worship. Therefore, when we behold him as we should, the change is profound.
~ John Piper
God loves us by liberating us from the bondage of self so that we can enjoy knowing and admiring him forever.
~ John Piper
You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.
~ John Piper
We want people to like us and admire us and speak well of us. It is a deadly drive. Jesus warned us, "Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Matthew 23:12).
~ John Piper
True gratitude must be rooted in something else that comes first, namely, a delight in the beauty and excellency of God's character.
~ John Piper
Let your light shine before others, sothat they may see your good works." So the motive at stake is not simply whether you want your acts to be known by others, but why you want them to be known—that God be glorified, or that you be admired.
~ John Piper
If the beams are beautiful, the sun is even more beautiful. God's aim is not that we merely admire His gifts, but even more, His glory.
~ John Piper
Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.
~ John Polkinghorne
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
~ John Quincy Adams
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
~ John Ruskin
Mai looked around, marveling at the nearly finished paintings on the stairwell's walls.....Mai wished that she could create something as beautiful. She was certain that to create such beauty, the painter must have laughed many times.
~ John Shors
People who are not in love may lightly laugh at lovers; and yet true love is a genuine and a noble thing for all that.
~ John Stuart Blackie