Admiration is respect and warm approval.

1. Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
Rod McKuen

2. Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison

3. Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
Margaret Fuller

5. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn

6. I guess as you get older you sort of see the mechanics, even with the best comedians. There’s admiration for people I admire, but it’s not guttural laughter. It’s a wry ‘Oh, well done, sir.’ But I sort of miss that slightly; I miss the raw joy of comedy I used to get.
Stephen Merchant

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

8. He's a great goalie, I admire him a lot. He has great patience. He just works hard and he's doing a great job.
Manny Legace

9. If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.
Lincoln Ellsworth

10. Nature deserves praise and admiration for making machines so small.
Marcello Malpighi

11. Fondness and admiration are two of the most crucial elements in a rewarding and long-lasting romance. Although happily married couples may feel driven to distraction at times by their partner’s personality flaws, they still feel that the person they married is worthy of honor and respect.
Dr. John Gottman

12. The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
Oscar de la Renta

13. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.
Albert Einstein

14. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers

15. Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
Denis Diderot

16. A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
Anonymous

17. It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.
Ayn Rand

18. I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
Paloma Faith

19. When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Anonymous

20. You Are Beautiful, Intelligent, Creative, Loving, Brave And Worthy Of Your Own Admiration And Affection.
Anonymous

21. People don’t need enormous cars; they need admiration and respect. They don’t need a constant stream of new clothes; they need to feel that others consider them to be attractive, and they need excitement and variety and beauty. People don’t need electronic entertainment; they need something interesting to occupy their minds and emotions. And so forth. Trying to fill real but nonmaterial needs-for identity, community, self-esteem, challenge, love, joy-with material things is to set up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to never-satisfied longings. A society that allows itself to admit and articulate its nonmaterial human needs, and to find nonmaterial ways to satisfy them, world require much lower material and energy throughputs and would provide much higher levels of human fulfillment.
Donella H. Meadows

22. I admire someone who has been through alot and still keeps their head up.
Anonymous

23. Besides mutual admiration, the first requisite for Platonic friendship is a subtle trace of disdain.
Anonymous

24. There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Samuel Johnson

25. Compassion is a wonderful thing. It’s what one feels when one looks at a squashed caterpillar. An elevating experience. One can let oneself go and spread–you know, like taking a girdle off. You don’t have to hold your stomach, your heart or your spirit up–when you feel compassion. All you have to do is look down. It’s much easier. When you look up, you get a pain in the neck. Compassion is the greatest virtue. It justifies suffering. There’s got to be suffering in the world, else how would we be virtuous and feel compassion?… Oh, it has an antithesis–but such a hard, demanding one… Admiration, Mrs. Jones, admiration. But that takes more than a girdle… So I say that anyone for whom we can’t feel sorry is a vicious person. Like Howard Roark
Ayn Rand

26. Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a “mutual admiration society”; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all.
C.S. Lewis

27. I still felt fondness for her – fondness, that pleasant, detached mix of admiration and sentiment, appreciation and nostalgia.
David Levithan

28. Things not understood are admired.
Thomas Fuller

29. A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
Kitty Kelle

30. Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce

31. Attract what you expect, reflect what you desire, become what you respect, mirror what you admire.
Anonymous

32. You are worthy of, respect and admiration. Always full of, energy and motivation. In tough times, you’ve cut us some slack. A boss, we know you’ve always got out backs.
Anonymous

33. A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen

34. If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn

35. Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

36. Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
Edmund Burke

37. The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.
Fawn Weaver

38. When There Can Be That Admiration For Self The Rest Is Very Simple.
Prem Rawat

39. The poet never asks for admiration,he wants to be believed.
Anonymous

40. Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
George Sand

41. We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.
Mitt Romney

42. Won't say I hate you-but my admiration for you is under control.
Fred Allen

43. I have so much admiration for people who devote their life to the church, … I was quite inspired by Clara. I was inspired by her drive to do good, by her willingness to sacrifice herself and her.
Anonymous

44. For you I always had an admiration, we lost touch but you never left my imagination.
Anonymous

45. Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.
Samuel Lover

46. Admiration, warmth, respect, and the desire to be yours. Will you be my Valentine?
Anonymous

47. We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed.
Anonymous

48. Some seek fame cause they need validation, Some say hating is confused admiration.
Anonymous

49. If I’m to have a character that others admire, I need to focus on developing that character. I need to make decisions that are honorable and honest. I need to focus on others rather than myself. I need to be consistent in my dealings with other (while being careful to avoid what Emerson called “a foolish consistency”). I must obey the calls of my religious beliefs. And I must be true to myself, my God, and others. I should never seek the admiration of others, but if I develop an honest, loving, caring character, the admiration will come.
Tom Walsh

50. It was a wonderful thing. The turnout was indicative of the tremendous love, admiration, and respect that this town has for him. It was a wonderful tribute to Leo. – Janice Farinon

51. I admire him for his work, but I know he’s going to lose. I guarantee he’s not going to win. But it’s like I tell everybody: You Puerto Ricans, you got to vote for your own kind no matter what. It doesn’t make a difference if he’s going to win or lose. Stand behind him; maybe he might win, and then he could help you out.
Angel Gonzalez

52. Two souls with but a single thought of love and admiration, equals two hearts beating as one.
Andrew Guzaldo

53. Every day she imagined placing a beautiful crown upon her head to remind herself that she was a powerful, resourceful, intelligent and wise woman, worthy of her own admiration.
Anonymous

54. You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That’s what I felt. I’ve made a lot of mistakes I’m not proud of.
Scott Stapp

55. Friendship is like the aroma of fresh coffee that entails admiration, temptation, trust, love and good memories.
Anonymous

56. In an age of casual, cynical, indifferent routine, among people who held themselves as if they were not flesh, but meat-Dagny’s bearing seemed almost indecent, because this was the way a woman would have faced a ballroom centuries ago, when the act of displaying one’s half-naked body for the admiration of men was an act of daring, when it had meaning, and but one meaning, acknowledged by all as a high adventure. And this-thought Mrs. Taggart, smiling-was the girl she had believed to be devoid of sexual capacity. She felt an immense relief, and a touch of amusement at the thought that a discovery of this kind should make her feel relieved. The relief lasted only for a few hours. At the end of the evening, she saw Dagny in a corner of the ballroom, sitting on a balustrade as if it were a fence rail, her legs dangling under the chiffon skirt as if she were dressed in slacks. She was talking to a couple of helpless young men, her face contemptuously empty.
Ayn Rand

57. I truly admire people who live a simple life with just enough money to spend everyday yet they know the true meaning of happiness.
Anonymous

58. Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Anonymous

59. Marriage is a mutual admiration society where one person is always right, the other is the husband.
W Grant

60. People don’t need enormous cars; they need admiration and respect. They don’t need a constant stream of new clothes; they need to feel that others consider them to be attractive, and they need excitement and variety and beauty. People don’t need electronic entertainment; they need something interesting to occupy their minds and emotions. And so forth. Trying to fill real but nonmaterial needs-for identity, community, self-esteem, challenge, love, joy-with material things is to set up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to never-satisfied longings. A society that allows itself to admit and articulate its nonmaterial human needs, and to find nonmaterial ways to satisfy them, world require much lower material and energy throughputs and would provide much higher levels of human fulfillment.
Donella H. Meadows

61. Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.
Suzanne Collins

62. To her the earth was composed of hardships and insults. She felt instant admiration for a man who openly defied it. She thought that if the grim angel of death should clutch his heart, Pete would shrug his shoulders and say, “Oh, ev’ryt’ing goes.” She anticipated that he would come again shortly. She spent some of her week’s pay in the purchase of flowered cretonne for a lambrequin. She made it with infinite care, and hung it to the slightly careening mantel over the stove in the kitchen. She studied it with painful anxiety from different points in the room. She wanted it to look well on Sunday night when, perhaps, Jimmie’s friend would come. On Sunday night, however, Pete did not appear.
Afterwards the girl looked at it with a sense of humiliation. She was now convinced that Pete was superior to admiration for lambrequins.
Stephen Crane

63. I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.
Anonymous

64. There is no loneliness more miserable than self admiration.
Imam Ali

65. Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce

66. I have great admiration for IIT and their coaches. They don’t get the type of players that the rest of the conference gets, but they came back to take the lead against us in the second half. There is no quit in those kids, and I admire them for that.
Pat Sullivan