Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andie MacDowell

I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.

Alphonsus Liguori

But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.

Alphonsus Liguori

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

Alphonsus Liguori

You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.

Anna Pavlova

It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.

Chuck Norris

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Alfred Hitchcock

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?

Alfred Austin

There is no gardening without humility

Alfred Adler

It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

Angela Carter

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Andrew Jackson

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

Anthony Burgess

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Anthony Bourdain

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

Anatole France

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Amanda Seyfried

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

Ann Beattie

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

Anjelica Huston

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

Ann Aguirre

Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble.

Chuck Palahniuk

If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.

Chubby Checker

When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

Christopher Morley

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Christopher Moore

This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do.

Anselm of Canterbury

Disasters teach us humility.

Annie Proulx

No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.

Anne Bronte

I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.

Anne Bronte

Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.

Ann Veneman

Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world a better place. Everyday Ambassador is a refreshing approach which encourages collaborative work with focus, empathy, humility and patience to better affect positive change in communities throughout the world.

Andrew Carnegie

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

Amy Carmichael

If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Anna Kendrick

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

Amy Chua

Be modest, be humble, be simple,

Amy Chua

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.