Quotes About Admiration

Would you win the hearts of others, you must not seem to vie with them, but to admire them. Give them every opportunity of displaying their own qualifications, and when you have indulged their vanity, they will praise you in turn and prefer you above others . . . Such is the vanity of mankind that minding what others say is a much surer way of pleasing them than talking well ourselves."6

people are more likely to admire your work if you're able to keep them from feeling jealous of you.6

The Germans think that strength must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty; then they submit with fervor and admiration: they are suddenly rid of their pitiful weakness and their sensitivity for every naught, and they devoutly enjoy terror. That there is strength in mildness and stillness, they do not believe easily. They miss strength in Goethe …!—XI, 112.

How nearly can what we most despise and hate, approach in outward manner to that which we most venerate!

at that moment experienced the painful internal feeling of that peculiar spedes of shame, which well-constructed minds feel when they see others express a great assumption of importance, with a confidence that they are exciting admiration, when in fact they are only exposing themselves to ridicule.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm not talking like a hundred-watt bulb; she just had this warmth to her. Maybe it came from climbing that tree. Maybe it came from singing to chickens. Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion. I don't know. All I know is that compared to her, everybody else seemed so ordinary. I had flipped.

And of course I felt sorry for you, but Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â He stops running. "Didn't you read what I wrote on your running leg? Does it say, I feel sorry for you? No! It says, You inspire me. I want to be around you because you inspire me! You're amazing. I think you're the most Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â I stop running, and I look at him. His

Not that I'd ever want to own a 1960 sienna-rose Cadillac, but Hudson loves it, and I've got to admit—it glistens.

She was a pretty girl, and I was moved by her prettiness. Her hair was brown at the verge of red, and curly. Her face was still a little freckled. But it was her eyes that most impressed me. They were nearly black and had a liquid luster. The brief, laughing look that she had given me made me feel extraordinarily seen, as if after that I might be visible in the dark.

People who have made peace with themselves are the people I most admire in the world.

Jim Adams, Kurt's nephew, found "there was a definite disconnect between the kind of guy you would imagine Kurt must be from the tone of his books, the kind of guy who would say, 'God damn it, you got to be kind,' and the reality of his behavior on a daily basis. He was a complicated, difficult man.… I think he admired the idea of love, community, and family from a distance, but couldn't deal with the complicated emotional elements they included."142

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

in the lower self, love is neediness, "chemistry" or infatuation, possession, strong admiration, or even worship—in short, traditional romantic love. Many people who grew up in troubled homes and who experienced a stifling of their Child Within become stuck at these lower levels or ways of experiencing love.

Dear Valentine, I love you. Whoever you are.

I think I'll go over and introduce myself to that little red-haired girl. I think I'll introduce myself, and then ask her to come over and sit next to me. I think I'll ask her to sit next to me here, and then I think I'll tell her how much I've always admired her... I think I'll flap my arms, and fly to the moon.

I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a girl that shows you really like her?" "How about, enclosed please find a cookie?

I can't get that Little Red-Haired Girl out of my mind. ~ Charlie Brown

These are valentines for all the boys at school that I like... And this is a very special one for my sweet babboo." "Does your sweet babboo know who he is?" "Oh, yes, he knows who he is..." "I do not!

Why did you write "Charlie Brown is a blockhead" on the sidewalk?" "Because I sincerely believe you are a blockhead! I have to write what I believe is true... It's my moral respolsibility!" "Deep down I admire her integrity...

En la mujer rico tesoro es la belleza, el placer de admirarla no se acaba jamás; pero la bondad, la gentileza la superan y valen mucho más.

La bella Antigüedad fue siempre venerable; pero no creo en absoluto que ella sea admirable. Veo a los antiguos, sin doblar las rodillas; son grandes, es cierto, pero hombres como nosotros.

thing. I had the greatest respect for