Inspirational Quotes and Sayings!

Inspirational Quotes on Admiration.

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

This is a very wise saying on Admiration
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
~Francis H. Bradley

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
~Benjamin Franklin

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Jean Rostand

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.
~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
~Elizabeth Bowen

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abashed.”
~John Milton

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
~ Thomas Creech

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
~Denis Diderot

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

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is an Admiration quote I like the most:
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
~Minna Thomas Antrim

Some inspirational quotes on truth, and some are funny:

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.
~Stopford Brooke

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
~Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
~Oscar Wilde

First they ignore it, then they laugh at it, then they say they knew it all along.
~Alexander Humbold

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
~Oscar Wilde

Turns out if you never lie, there’s always someone mad at you.
~Scott Westerfeld

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
~ James Arthur Baldwin

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
~Thomas Jefferson

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.
~ Adrian Rodgers

You never find yourself until you face the truth
~ Pearl Bailey

There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.
~ Goethe

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
~Albert Einstein

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
~Tryon Edwards

What you perceive, your observations, feelings, interpretations, are all your truth. Your truth is important. Yet it is not The Truth.
~Linda Ellinor

There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn’t so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.
~Soren Kierkegaard

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
~Edith Sitwell

When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest. ~Anonymous

The truth is more important than the facts.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
~Niels Bohr

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
~Mark Twain

All generalizations, including this one, are false.
~Mark Twain

“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
~Anais Nin

“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
~Andre Gide

“You won’t skid if you stay in a rut.”
~Kin Hubbard

“People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
~Winston Churchill

“The biggest risk in life is to risk nothing at all”
~Anonymous

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
~ William Shedd

“Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.”
~Samuel Johnson

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
~Herodotus

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
~ Mark Twain

“To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.”
~Isaac Asimov

“There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
~John F. Kennedy

“To eat an egg, you must break the shell.”
~Jamaican Proverb
“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”
~Strom Jameson

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”
~George S. Patton

“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”
~Pierre Corneille

“You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
~Wayne Gretzky

“Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.”
~ Frederick Smith

“If you don’t risk anything you risk even more.”
~Erica Jong

“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
~ Katherine Mansfield

Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln

“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. ~Edmund Burke

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ~Simone de Beauvoir

“Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

“You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness. ~Robert Frost

“For Freedom’s battle once begun, Bequeath’d by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

“History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.” ~Charles de Gaulle

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.” ~Mahatma Gandhi

“To freemen, threats are impotent.”~ Cicero

“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.”~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“That’s free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing — the truly democratic thing about it — is that you don’t even have to be a player to lose.”~ Barbara Ehrenreich

“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ~Woodrow Wilson

“None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.” ~Goethe

“Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.” ~Ambrose Bierce

“Freedom means choosing your burden.” ~Hephzibah Menuhin

“Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.”~ Henry David Thoreau

“The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.” ~Leonid Brezhnev

” When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.”~ Dorothy Thompson

“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.” ~Moshe Dayan

“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre

“We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My angel, his name is Freedom, Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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