Famous Quotes & Sayings

Those who take unjustified pride in themselves, are punished and humiliated by the Messenger of Death. O Nanak, who else is there to ask?

Clarence Darrow

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Clarence Darrow

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

Daniel Day-Lewis

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.

Dan Brown

Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.

David Mamet

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

David Attenborough

Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.

Dave Allison

If we remain humble and hungry, we can win.

Davy Jones

And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.

David Livingstone

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

Coretta Scott King

Violence diminishes our humanity.

Confucius

These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

Confucius

What is most needed for learning is a humble mind.

Confucius

Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

Confucius

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

Confucius

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Dana Snyder

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

Dallas Willard

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

Dallas Willard

And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project, not its own, and his initiatives are always at work among us.

Donald Rumsfeld

When one looks back on this effort, I think and pray that what will be significant is that a large number of human beings, intelligent and energetic, have been liberated,

Kin Hubbard

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Kurt Vonnegut

No moral value is greater than humanity.

Kurt Vonnegut

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

Kurt Vonnegut

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

Kurt Vonnegut

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Kurt Vonnegut

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

Vandana Shiva

The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.

William Shakespeare

But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness.

Andy Pettitte

I'm not a negative-minded person. But maybe to keep me humble, I look more at my bad games in big situations than good ones.

Clayton Christensen

What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

D. J. MacHale

You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.

D. A. Carson

If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.

D. A. Carson

That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.