Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Blaise Pascal

If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

Blaise Pascal

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

Blaise Pascal

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

Blaise Pascal

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Blaise Pascal

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Bill Hybels

Humility enables us to learn from each other.

Bill Hybels

I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.

Kenny Chesney

I've gotten to meet so many people who've inspired me as a human being.

Ludwig von Mises

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Timothy Noah

When Grover Norquist launched his project to name anything and everything after Ronald Reagan, I humbly proposed that the deficit be re-christened 'the Reagan.'

Charles Spurgeon

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

Charles Spurgeon

The more holy, the more humble.

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.

We won't be overconfident again. It was a humbling experience, but it will make us stronger.

Diane Keaton

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Dennis Ritchie

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

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.

Denis Diderot

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Dean Koontz

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8

Dean Koontz

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.

Dean Koontz

You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

Dean Koontz

Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Daniel H. Wilson

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

Daniel Handler

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

Conor McGregor

I’m cocky in prediction, I’m confident in preparation, but I am always humble in victory or defeat.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Elizabeth Taylor

Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.

B. C. Forbes

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

Ashleigh Brilliant

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.