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.

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 Spurgeon

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Diane Lane

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Deana Carter

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

Earl Nightingale

We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.

Elizabeth Drew

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

Elfriede Jelinek

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

Deepak Chopra

Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.