Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.

Charles Caleb Colton

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

Charles Dickens

I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

Charles Spurgeon

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.

Charles Spurgeon

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

Akira Kurosawa

The truth is in the mystery.

Alison Moyet

I was socially awkward for many years. I stuttered, stammered, talked rubbish. I never take up invites to parties, and I've been invited to very glamorous things, but I never go.

Ryan Stiles

I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now.

Charles Farrar Browne

They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.

Carine Roitfeld

I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.

Pope Francis

Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others.

Morihei Ueshiba

Fill yourself with Ki, invite the attack.

Sri Chinmoy

What comes to me unmistakably is what I carefully or carelessly invite.

John Powell

Our lives are shaped by those who love us

Barbara Deming

We cannot live without our lives

Albert Einstein

Our lives will be measured by what we do for others

Dogen

Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.

Berkeley Breathed

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Louise Hay

How we start our day is often how we live our lives

Juan Manuel Fangio

Women rule our lives, don't they?

Margaret Haddix

We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now,