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Definition of Admire

Admire

To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.

To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.

To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.

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Admire Quotations

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma Gandhi

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan Poe

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore Roosevelt

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale Carnegie

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Alexander Pope

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Jane Austen

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
Elizabeth Taylor

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

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.
Frank Sinatra

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.
Angelina Jolie

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Richard M. Nixon

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
Ayrton Senna

You always admire what you really don't understand.
Blaise Pascal

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden

I certainly admire people who do things.
Raymond Chandler

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.
William Feather

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Samuel Butler

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
Ezra Pound

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
David Herbert Lawrence

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.
Julie Christie

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Admire Translations

admire in Afrikaans is bewonder
admire in Danish is beundre
admire in Dutch is bewonderen
admire in German is bewundere, bewundern, bewundern
admire in Italian is ammirare
admire in Latin is admiror, miror
admire in Norwegian is beundre
admire in Portuguese is admirar
admire in Spanish is admirar, venerar
admire in Swedish is beundra

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