Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Charles Spurgeon

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

Charles R. Swindoll

...when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.

Dennis Prager

Humility is a fantastic trait and is one of the most important things we can have

Denis Hayes

Asbestos, EMFs, and CFCs have given us a degree of humility. When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be today's deadly threat to the global environment, it is legitimate to ask what else we don't know.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

Ted Turner

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Abraham Lincoln

I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.

Abraham Lincoln

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

William Booth

If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.

Deepak Chopra

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Dave Ramsey

You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt from math if you’re a liberal, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a conservative. You still have to do math.

Clive Granger

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

Brian Greene

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.

Mark Cuban

As processor speeds and shared processors create cheap unlimited processing power we will be able to turn our bodies into a math equation that can be crossed against the properties of medicine and nature to create medicine unique to each individual.

A. N. Wilson

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

Robert Scoble

Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt.

Charles Caleb Colton

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Charles Spurgeon

No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline

Charles R. Swindoll

Pride leaves no room for grace.

Democritus

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his ‘Yes’ to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new – the holy estate of matrimony…

Elbert Hubbard

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Elbert Hubbard

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

Steven Smith

I can't speak for everyone, but for myself personally, I pride myself on my conditioning. But today kind of let me down. They have tough guys.

Ben Jonson

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.

Elinor Glyn

how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.