Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bret Boone

Last year was a very humble experience, but it's not the first time I've ever been humbled. It's a different situation than I've ever been in, but it's a game, it's life.

Charles Spurgeon

The more holy, the more humble.

Dave Pelzer

One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

Gary Capaldi

I have never had an undefeated team. We are 16-0, but honestly, it does not seem like it. Our motto is to stay hungry and stay humble and these kids have done that.

Samuel Butler

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

Dean Stanley

Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to be rendered to those to whom it has long been due; no charitable, humble, kind, useful deed, by which you can promote the glory of God, or good-will among men, or peace upon earth? If there be any such, I beseech you, in God's name, in Christ's name, go and do it.

English Proverbs

If someone offends you, don't tell anyone about it except your elder, and you will be peaceful. Bow to everyone, paying no attention whether they respond to your bow or not. You must humble yourself before everyone and consider yourself the worst of all. If we have not committed the sins that others have, perhaps this is because we did not have the opportunity - the situation and circumstances were different. In each person there is something good and something bad; we usually see only the vices in people and we see nothing that is good.

Lee Myung-bak

I will serve the people in a very humble way.

Maurice Maeterlinck

No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.

Charles Caleb Colton

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

Buffalo Bill

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

Beatrix Potter

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.

Billy Joel

I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.

Ally Carter

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

Christopher Paolini

Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

A. A. Milne

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition.

Gunter Grass

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

Dick Vitale

Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.

Edgar Allan Poe

The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

Deepak Chopra

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

Abdul Kalam

A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.

Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

Lao Tzu

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Fred Schneider

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

Maude Adams

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Abigail Adams

These are the times when a genius wants to live.