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A leader is admired, a boss is feared. -- Vicente del Bosque
Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent. -- Cleopatra
I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it. -- Charles II
My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman. -- Jimmy Carter
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people. -- Ravi Shankar
Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised. -- Bryant H. McGill
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. -- A. P. Herbert
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. -- Katharine Hepburn
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store. -- Michael Nutter
The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational. -- Cheryl James
I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren't characters I looked up to and identified with. -- Angelina Jolie
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me. -- Naguib Mahfouz
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. -- Barbra Streisand
Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that. -- Zooey Deschanel
There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired. -- Eric Liu
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all. -- George Lopez
I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive. -- Gail Collins
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. -- Jane Fonda
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days. -- John le Carre
In June 2010, after more than 38 years in uniform, in the midst of commanding a 46-nation coalition in a complex war in Afghanistan, my world changed suddenly - and profoundly. An article in 'Rolling Stone' magazine depicting me, and people I admired, in a manner that felt as unfamiliar as it was unfair, ignited a firestorm. -- Stanley A. McChrystal
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Selfishness has never been admired. -- C. S. Lewis
Nature will not be admired by proxy. -- Winston Churchill
Few men are admired by their servants. -- Michel de Montaigne
Aim at being loved without being admired. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I admired anyone who could unsettle people. -- J. G. Ballard
I've always admired people who are over-prepared. -- Randy Pausch
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered. -- Jonny Greenwood
The human quality Degas most admired was endurance. -- John Berger
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. -- Aeschylus
Few men have been admired of their familiars. -- Michel de Montaigne
Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved, -- L. Frank Baum
Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. -- Eve Ensler
Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent. -- William Shakespeare
I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating. -- Jim Butcher
You will never be admired without being criticized first. -- Grant Cardone
Creativity is admired only if it solves the problem. -- Amit Kalantri
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself. -- Georg Brandes
MoMA is one of the world's most admired cultural institutions. -- Martin Winterkorn
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
She feels and she cries. It is to be admired. -- James Frey
I have always admired the way women put outfits together. -- Rachel Roy
Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance. -- Seneca the Younger
I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her. -- Fred Melamed
I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing. -- Jack Kirby
I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it. -- Charles II
Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere. -- Seamus Heaney
I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her. -- Humphrey Bogart
I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith. -- Andrew Schneider
I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close. -- Gena Showalter
I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike. -- F. Sionil Jose
The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them. -- E. W. Howe
I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American. -- Howard Frank Mosher
Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant. -- Paulo Coelho
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. -- Jean Cocteau
I have always admired brave men and women who endured the test time. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Any man who lives by his beliefs is to be admired, not mocked. -- Julie Garwood
Women are not just there to be admired, they are there to be enjoyed. -- Ellen von Unwerth
I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it. -- Aimee Bender
I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired. -- William Cowper
Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. Itâ??s nothing to be admired. -- Bill Maher
Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired. -- Walter Darby Bannard
One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity. -- David Gergen
One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right. -- Emmett Tyrrell
All women like to have their clothes admired, and those that deny it are lying. -- Carolina Herrera
I always admired the beautiful stars of Hollywood and dreamt of becoming one of them. -- Sonam Kapoor
I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers. -- Thomas Browne
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed. -- Hugh Leonard
George Booth and I are both funny, and from afar, without meeting, admired each other's work. -- Bill Cosby
Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself -- Simon Hughes
Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. -- Kate DiCamillo
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Strength of body, strength of mind, strength of character, qualities to be admired in any person. -- Mike Berry
I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here. -- Tim DeKay
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible. -- Pliny the Younger
Modeling is always something I've really admired because I've seen my mum and sister do it. -- Georgia May Jagger
My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers. -- Sandra Bullock
Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death. -- Harold Brodkey
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved. -- Wendell Berry
Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude's for the magnificent work they do. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either. -- Garrison Keillor
Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired. -- Charles Spurgeon
Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties. -- Barbara Walters
One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people. -- Stephen Covey
Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it. -- Stella McCartney
The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present? -- D. H. Lawrence
I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there. -- Hillary Clinton
It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are. -- Bradford Cox
Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people. -- H. Allen Smith
Terry Gilliam is someone I'd always deeply admired. I saw his films when I was a child. -- Gwendoline Christie
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. -- Bertrand Russell
She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people. -- Jeannette Walls
When I live out of discipline, I'm admired - When I live out of passion, I'm contagious. -- Bill Johnson
No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way. -- Jock Sturges
Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him. -- Leon Askin
She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I want women to choose something that makes them feel empowered and fantastic and admired by many people. -- Carolina Herrera
Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar. -- Doris Lessing
One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents. -- Jon Voight
I greatly admired him as a teacher I didn't teach the same way as Josef Albers at all. -- Michael Craig-Martin
How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired. -- Blaise Pascal
The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation. -- John Ortberg
I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it. -- William C. deMille
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. -- Edward Young
The British had an even stronger [then America] business interest in Nazi Germany. And Benito Mussolini was greatly admired. -- Noam Chomsky
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear! -- Jules Verne
Donald Trump was not a businessman to be admired, but an example of what's wrong with discriminatory corporate America. -- Jennifer Pozner
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. -- Rowan Williams
Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired. -- Steven Bochco
I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I'd ever admired. -- Chris Roberson
Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with -- Angela Carter
I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around. -- Michael Caine

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