Admire: To regard with wonder or surprise; to look up to; to look at with approbation, esteem, reverence, affection; to look at with wonder, or pleasure.
From Latin admiror, which is a combination of the preposition ad meaning to, or toward, and the verb miror meaning to wonder at.
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. – Abraham Joshua Heschel.
Whom do you admire?