Admirable Quotes

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.