The 90 best phrases of admiration

When we admire a person, we are showing both respect and appreciation for their efforts. It is a way of having someone as a reference, so that it serves as a compass about what we should aim for.

To understand this feeling, in this article we will see a selection of the best phrases of admiration, commented.

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The most memorable phrases about admiration

This is a compilation of the best reflections and quotes on admiration that help to understand this human experience based on the desire to look like someone or take an example from that person.

1. The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. (Charles Kuralt)

We never stop appreciating the recognition given to us by the people we love.

2. The secret of happiness is to admire without wanting. (Carl Sandburg)

Excessive desire corrupts us.

3. Anyone who follows the road less traveled is admirable. (Kevin McCloud)

An admirable person is one who follows her dreams.

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4. We admire things for reasons, but we love them for no reason. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

That is the true essence of appreciation.

5. Admiration is the strongest foundation that exists in a relationship. (Nathaniel Branden)

Every relationship needs the recognition of the other.

6. Admiration and familiarity are strange. (George Sand)

Sometimes strangers are the ones who admire us the most or vice versa.

7. No one has been able to teach me what my parents have given me with his example.

There are parents who deserve all our admiration.

8. Tell me who admires you and who loves you, and I will tell you who you are. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

There are people who only flatter to get some benefit.

9. He admires those who try great things, even when they fail. (Seneca)

It is better to try something and fail than to be carried away by fear.

10. They say that a man is not a man as long as he does not hear his name from a woman's lips. (Antonio Machado)

There are different types of admiration.

11. Learn to admire others. It is the first step to overcome your ego. (Ehsan Sehgal)

A great way to avoid being blind to arrogance.

12. If you go down with dignity, you will be admired as if you were going up! (Mehmet Murat ildan)

It's not all about winning, but knowing when to fold.

13. I admire brave people... not the one who thinks she is strong or the one who struggles to prove something... to brave people. (Anonymous)

An excellent recommendation to admire.

14. It is scary to think that perhaps the most sincere admirations we have are those of people who have not understood us. (Benito Pérez Galdós)

Blind flattery.

15. We always admire what we really don't understand. (Blaise Pascal)

The impact that mysteries have on us.

16. There are people who know that it is not worth much, but do not know how much it is worth.

A sad reality.

17. When you bow deeply to one, you always turn your back on another. (Abbe Galiani)

It is necessary to maintain a balance.

18. Stay away from contempt and admiration, as both go hand in hand, alternating. Get close to sincerity, even if it hurts.

Be careful not to be blinded by those you admire.

19. Something that is learned in the midst of plagues: that there are more things in men worthy of admiration than of contempt. (Albert Camus)

It is in difficult moments when we know the true value of people.

20. To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. (Theophile Gautier)

Two ways to admire.

21. Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. (Ann Landers)

It is necessary to know ourselves in order to face the world correctly.

22. That the man whom the average women admire will never be capable of great things. (Concepción Arenal)

Do not stay in your comfort zone, if you want to move forward.

23. Admiring a creative soul at work is almost as satisfying as making your own paintings. (E.A. Bucchianeri)

A way to find motivation and show respect.

24. Humility is something very strange. At the very moment we think we have it, we have already lost it. (San Agustin)

There are those who pride themselves on their humility, as if they were their owner.

25. I have great admiration for people who have been in a relationship for a long time, married for years. (Paloma Faith)

A sign that things can last.

26. Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. (Benjamin Franklin)

Sometimes we esteem people who do not deserve it.

27. The best inheritance my grandfather has left me is the tremendous admiration I feel for his person.

It is the actions that determine how others will see us.

28. Just as those who love want that love to be reciprocal, those who admire want to be admired in return. (Paul Hudson)

Many feelings are reciprocal.

29. Protect me from the wisdom that doesn't cry, from the philosophy that doesn't laugh, and from the greatness that doesn't bow down to children. (Gibran)

If there is something to praise, it is the things that bring positivity to the world.

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30. Two things admire me: the intelligence of beasts and the bestiality of men. (Tristan Bernard)

Things that never cease to amaze us.

31. The more narcissistic the leader, the greater the need for admiration from others and the security they crave. (Naomi Shragai)

A selfish admiration.

32. Mutual admiration is the key to success in any type of collaboration. (Frazier Tharpe)

A way to strengthen alliances.

33. If you want to renounce the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead and get married. (Katharine Hepburn)

A funny reference to marriage.

34. Distance is a great promoter of admiration. (Denis Diderot)

The distance as a motivator.

35. Blessed is he who has learned to admire, but not to envy, to follow, but not to imitate, to praise, but not to flatter, to lead, but not to manipulate. (William Arthur Ward)

The correct ways to act.

36. Some people are shaped by your admiration, others by your hostilities. (Elizabeth Bowen)

It all depends on the examples we decide to follow.

37. Admiration is frozen love. (Françoise Sagan)

A show of affection.

38. It is always more valuable to have respect than the admiration of people. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

Respect is genuine, but not all admiration is real.

39. The beginning of all knowledge is admiration at the fact that things are as they are. (Aristotle)

Respect for things.

40. I like those people who, although they know that they are not going to get what they want, they try until they can no longer.

When we try, we acquire more capacities to grow.

41. Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it discourages us from striving to possess it. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

The power of conviction.

42. I have great respect and admiration for the people who put themselves in the line of fire. (Major Owens)

Those who risk their lives for the welfare of others can be seen as heroes.

43. What surprises, surprises once, but what is admirable is more so the more it is admired. (Joseph Joubert)

It is something that causes us a great continuous impact.

44. Close your lips in anger, open them in admiration. (Ipsit Bibhu Darshi)

Be careful what you say.

45. The earth incites the astonishment and admiration of man, although he is imperfect and the understanding of him is very limited. (Joseph F. Rutherford)

Everything can change, even our thoughts.

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46. For your kindness I am indebted to you. You have my admiration for your selflessness. (Natalie Merchant)

Give according to what you receive.

47. Our admiration for antiquity is not an admiration for the ancient, but for the natural. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It is a respect for culture.

48. A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the safest recipes to achieve affection. (Arthur Helps)

A very peculiar mix.

49. Do so that you are admired and not what belongs to you. (Juvenal)

What gets respect is your actions, not your belongings.

50. You have always done the same thing, confusing love with admiration. (Amy Ryan)

They are two opposite things.

51. He who keeps a compliment, is left with something foreign. (Pablo Picasso)

Never shut up the feelings you have for someone.

52. The greatest satisfaction of a father is feeling admired by his children.

An achievement that is a true pride.

53. Between compliments and admiration, sometimes a river of contempt runs. (Antrim Mine)

For this reason, you have to know that not all compliments are honest.

54. The admiration bestowed on anyone except us is always tedious. (Honoré de Balzac)

It's about flattering others as much as ourselves.

55. We always love those who admire us, but not always those we admire. (François de la Rochefoucauld)

For this reason, we must never save our feelings.

56. Instead of criticizing people, try to admire God's creative work. (Richelle E. Goodrich)

Before criticizing someone, try to get to know them.

57. Your fans make you strong and brave. Your detractors make you successful. (Sanjeev Himachali)

They all bring you something.

58. A woman's intuition is more accurate than a man's certainty. (Rudyard Kipling)

A reflection on the gender roles in which men and women fit.

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59. Admiration does not provide salvation for the inopportune. (A.J. Darkholme)

It is above all, a recognition.

60. There are three things that admiration has confirmed; lack of autonomy, senility of mind and force of despair. (Lionel Suggs)

A harsh criticism of admiration.

61. I like those people who get everything out of nothing.

People who create wonders.

62. It is more difficult to make admiration last than to provoke it. (Joseph Sanial-Dubay)

Many things do not last long enough.

63. What gets you help is not pity, but admiration when you refuse to give up. (Suzanne Collins)

Never turn down the help offered.

64. It is easy to be admired when you remain unapproachable. (André Maurois)

Admiration and the unattainable going hand in hand.

65. Admiration begins where knowledge ceases. (Samuel Johnson)

When ignorance leads us to admire something.

66. The gift of admiration is essential if you want to achieve something. (Thomas Mann)

Admiration gives us reason to keep going.

67. It is not the beauty of a person that you should admire, it is the purity of what deserves your admiration. (Karon Waddell)

Do not be carried away by appearances, because this is not everything to meet someone.

68. Women need beauty so that men love us, and stupidity so that we love men. (Coco Chanel)

A strange way to get love.

69. I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire, and have someone who feels the same way about me. (Richard Bach)

A beautiful reciprocity.

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70. Irrationality and inferiority are the progenitors of admiration. (Lionel Suggs)

An empty admiration.

71. That which is dark can also be the most beautiful thing.

Beauty is in the eyes of those who see it.

72. Maternal love is always great, but it becomes sublime when it is mixed with admiration for the beloved child. (Angel Ganivet)

The admiration between parents and children is perhaps the most real.

73. This is the mark of a truly admirable man: firmness in the face of affliction. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

Continue in spite of everything.

74. Admiration is our polite recognition of the other's resemblance to ourselves. (Ambrose Bierce)

A way of defining admiration.

75. Admire the efforts that lead to failure as much as the beauty of the sunset. (Amit Kalantri)

Efforts that deserve to be recognized.

76. Not only does the artist look at his art with admiration, art also looks at its artist with admiration. (Mehmet Murat İldan)

A symbiotic relationship.

77. The only things that can be admired in detail are those that you admire without knowing why. (Jean Rostand)

You don't need to have a fixed reason to admire something or someone.

78. Nothing is more worthy of admiration in a noble man than knowing how to accept and imitate the virtues of others. (Confucius)

Follow the examples that lead you to a more positive life.

79. To stop admiring is a test of deterioration. (Charles Horton Cooley)

Failure to recognize the work of another is a show of arrogance.

80. Admiration is the most opposite feeling to understanding. (Tite Kubo)

Another criticism towards admiration.

81. Nothing lifts a man so much above the pettiness of life as admiring, whatever he is or whoever he is. (Thomas Carlyle)

An overwhelming motivating force.

82. A starry moon looks at you with admiration because for its eyes you are a star. (Debasish Mridha)

A metaphor that explains admiration.

83. A student never forgets a word of encouragement when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. (William Lyon Phelps)

Those teachers who know how to lead are the most remembered.

84. It is that to admire greatness is needed, although it seems paradoxical. (Ernesto Sábato)

An exclusive requirement?

85. It is the attention and admiration of a woman that a man desperately desires. (Sanjay Velayudhan)

What some expect in a relationship.

86. Admire everything that you would like to be and have not yet achieved.

Keep your dreams in mind.

87. The poet never asks for admiration, he just wants to be believed. (Jean Cocteau)

The goal of poets.

88. I don't envy your talent and I'm not jealous of your beauty either, but I do admire both. (Richard L. Ratliff)

Envy does not allow us to recognize the talent of others.

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89. A woman can change the life trajectory of a man. (Severo Ochoa)

The power of women in a relationship.

90. We will not be alright as long as we love and admire something more than we love and admire God. (C. S. Lewis)

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