Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

Loren Eiseley

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.

Malcolm Forbes

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

Maimonides

If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.

Mahatma Gandhi

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

Mahatma Gandhi

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

Mahatma Gandhi

The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness.

Mahatma Gandhi

A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well.

Mahatma Gandhi

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.

Mahatma Gandhi

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

Gavin Rossdale

Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.

Gaby Hoffmann

I'm interested in acting because I'm interested in exploring humanity, and we're all nuts, we're all damaged, and we're all gorgeous, so anything less than that is dishonest to me.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.

Freida Pinto

I'm a human being before anything else.

Freida Pinto

I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.

Freya Stark

All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.

Freya Stark

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

Og Mandino

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

Norman Rockwell

If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.

Norman Mailer

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

Norman Lear

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

Os Guinness

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Orson Welles

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

Orison Swett Marden

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

Orison Swett Marden

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Olive Schreiner

Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.