Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Cotton

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.

Troian Bellisario

You have to remember what's most important in life. I am loved by so many people and have a wonderful job. I know I'm incredibly blessed. I am a completely lucky human being.

Tracy McMillan

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

Brian Eno

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Bob Costas

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

Bob Dylan

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

Billy Connolly

I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow.

Brigham Young

Daily toil, however humble it may be, is our daily duty, and by doing it well, we make it a part of our daily worship.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.

Bruce Lee

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

Bruce Lee

Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

Brooks Atkinson

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Brother Lawrence

I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

Brother Lawrence

God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and center of our souls.

Brother Lawrence

Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.

Brother Lawrence

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Edmund Burke

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

Edmund Burke

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

Eckhart Tolle

There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet.

Eckhart Tolle

Quality requires your Presence.

Eckhart Tolle

But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.

Elif Safak

A saint belongs to all humanity.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

Elie Wiesel

Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.

Elie Wiesel

Humanity would never tolerate it

Bob Newhart

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

Bob Newhart

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

Billy Donovan

You can do one of two things: You can humble yourself or life will humble you. I think it's a lot easier to find a way to humble yourself.

Billy Joel

And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.

Bill Johnson

In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.

Bill Johnson

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

Bernard Williams

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

Edward Hopper

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.