Quotes About Admiration

As a boy all Steve wanted to do was to be like his dad. At twenty-nine he'd become like Bob and then some.

He was more than just my husband that night. He was my hero.

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the Romantics revived them in order to escape from themselves. In their widest ramifications 'the Middle Ages' thus constitute one of the most prevalent cultural myths of the modern world. BRIAN STOCK, Listening for the text

Totto-chan regretted it with all her heart. Yes, that was it. What on earth made her beat the boy she liked so much? She Sharpened his pencils every day! But it was too late. She could never be his bride now. "I'm going to go on sharpening his pencils all the same," Totto-chan decided. "After all, I love him.

Lay aside the thirst for honor from others and seek to honor others instead

Anstaunen ist auch eine Kunst. Es gehört etwas dazu, Großes als groß zu begreifen.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.

How safe for the preserving of heavenly grace to fly from human approval, and not to long after the things which seem to win admiration abroad, but to follow with all earnestness those things which bring amendment of life and heavenly fervour!

Nature has a relish for knowing secrets and hearing news. It wishes to appear abroad and to have sense experiences. It wishes to be known and to do things for which it will be praised and admired. But grace does not care to hear news or curious matters, because all this arises from the old corruption of man, since there is nothing new, nothing lasting on earth.

In fact, whenever I read something as complicated as Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and think about his having written it in longhand, I am not merely awed — the thought gives me a headache.

I can look a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of an horse.

but the beauty of the youngest was so wonderful that the poverty of language is unable to express its due praise.

Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.

It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the heart of the whole business of the age, one may say, is to do it well.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.