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Quotes About Admirable

I think dogs were put in this world to remind humanity that love, loyalty, devotion, courage, patience, and good humor are the qualities that, with honesty, are the essence of admirable character and the very definition of a life well lived.
~ Dean Koontz
Why I love him is, I don't know, because he seems very brave and kind and sweet. All that stuff but something else, too. I don't know what something else, but he's different somehow, and what I'm trying to say is it's a good kind of difference, whatever it is.
~ Dean Koontz
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
~ Delmore Schwartz
I realized that the actors that I liked and admired all went to drama school and got an agent that way. So I started when I was about 16 in drama school, and then I knew I had to wait until I was 18 so I could go on auditions, and I tried to get into one of the ones that I liked and then go from there.
~ Aneurin Barnard
I think Dustin Hoffman's career I would love to emulate just because it's so diversified.
~ Michael Angarano
We see the condition she is in, and what is admirable is not only that she reached this age, but that she got here in this shape, in very good health.
~ Unknown
I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique ' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
~ Danica McKellar
Republican government presupposes decent and admirable qualities among its citizens - so we should be serious about strengthening character and inculcating virtue.
~ Bill Kristol
The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
So "borrow" an idea from someone you admire—an idea that really appeals to you personally.
~ John Cleese
To move forth and grab your destiny is admirable. To shape your own future with the strength in your fist is beyond that.
~ Unknown
I'm trying to carry on my dad's legacy, and it is tough.
~ Bindi Irwin
Politeness. Now, there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.
~ Diane Setterfield
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things. (PHILIPPIANS 4:8)
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
This is a book about the most admirable of human virtues - courage. 'Grace under pressure', Earnest Hemingway defined it.
~ John F. Kennedy
His gall in holding the rally directly under the noses of the supreme court was humorous, even admirable.
~ John Grisham
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
~ Tacitus
Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It's nothing to be admired.
~ Bill Maher
It is at night that faith in light is admirable.
~ Edmond Rostand
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers." Man Ray
~ Man Ray
Imagination, thought, may be admirable mechanisms but they can also be inert. Suffering alone sets them going.
~ Marcel Proust
The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you are not the result of training at home, by a father, or by masters at school, they have sprung from beginnings of a very different order, by reaction from the influence of everything evil or commonplace that prevailed round about them. They represent a struggle and a victory.
~ Marcel Proust