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.

Alexandra Fuller

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

Edward Halifax

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Granth Sahib

One who contemplates his own self is truly wise.

Chris Evert

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Chris Evert

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

Chris Evans

I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-motivating. At the end of the day, I enjoy it. Once I'm there and once I get going, I tend to love it, and I feel good.

Charles Spurgeon

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

Charles Spurgeon

When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

Edgar Allan Poe

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

Eduardo Saverin

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

Edsger Dijkstra

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

Basil Bunting

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

Eddie Vedder

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

Elizabeth Dole

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

Deepak Chopra

Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.