Admirable Qualities Quotes

“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.”
― Jennifer Frick-Ruppert, Spirit Quest

“He had suddenly the clearest understanding he had ever had of the way his father had gone so wrong. A man's strength was supposed to be against the outside world; to fight it back from himself and from those he took under his protection: his wife, his children, and for a man strong enough, more people still, people like his employees. To turn it inward, against the very people you had been given the strength to protect, because you couldn't deal with the outward fight, was the ultimate weakness.”
― Laura Florand, The Chocolate Touch

“It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was.”
― Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

“Lonely you linger in a league above poetry.”
― Mie Hansson, Where Pain Thrives

“The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.”
― Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina p. 15

“It's not the beauty of a person you should admire. It is the purity of heart that deserves your admiration.”
― Karon Waddell

“Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.”
― Steven Pressfield

“It had been a couple of days since the girls had snuck out to the lake, and since then she’d been working harder. Not for Walter or for Darlington Orchard, but because of Birdie.
She could see her through the trees, talking to a pair of workers by the house, looking unsure of herself as usual, her big eyes thoughtful. Murphy ruminated that she might be the first really nice person Murphy had ever met and actually liked. It was something about the way she was so sweet but so rugged when it came to the farm stuff---knowing all about the farm and the animals, like with the sleeping bird the other night. Yesterday she’d driven by in a rusted-out red tractor, spraying the trees. She was sweet. But she wasn’t soft. Murphy could respect that. And she had the uneasy feeling that she didn’t want to let her down.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Peaches

“Birdie, he likes you. Why wouldn’t he? You’re beautiful, you’re funny, you’re sweet.”
“You have the best hair,” Murphy added.
Leeda nodded in agreement. “You pick a mean peach. You know how to do all this farm stuff that makes you look cool. You’re a steel magnolia.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Peaches

“I kind of became a feminist from an early age, even though I wasn’t aware of the feminist movement in any way. I admired my mum a lot. In her own quiet way she was a fighter.”
― Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid