Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is always the secure who are humble.

Holly Hunter

I've never directed, but it must be humbling.

Hermann Hesse

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Hermann Hesse

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

Joseph Addison

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

Joseph Addison

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Jose Saramago

There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.

Jose Mujica

I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent.

Jose Mujica

I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live,

Jose Padilha

RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?

Jordyn Wieber

Staying humble has always been really important to me, and always being proud of what you're representing.

Jonathan Swift

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Kevin Rudd

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

Kevin Spacey

I am not an image. I am a human being.

Kevin Spacey

Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

Kenneth Clark

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

I do think women generally are more humble.

Khaled Hosseini

I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.

Khalil Gibran

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

Kerry Packer

Never complain, never explain personal motto of

Jonathan Swift

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Jonathan Rosen

The things that make us human often make us ill.

Narendra Modi

In democracy, people's verdict is always final and we all have to accept it with humility.

Napoleon Hill

Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.

Napoleon Hill

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule

Napoleon Hill

The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

Napoleon Bonaparte

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

Lois McMaster Bujold

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

Liu Xiaobo

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

Livy

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

Livy

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

Lord Byron

She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe: nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears-- which I had not; And tenderness-- but that I had for her; Humility-- and that I never had. Her faults were mine-- her virtues were her own-- I loved her, and destroy'd her!