Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

Herbert V. Prochnow

If you would like to live in a community in which you may have pride, then dedicate yourself in a spirit of humility and your responsibilities in that community.

Herbert Spencer

Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to do so. And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.

Herman Melville

Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Herb Caen

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

Henry David Thoreau

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Henry David Thoreau

We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.

Henry David Thoreau

In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,--if it is only to make abetter paste blacking,--and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.

Jill Scott

You have to be humble when you're dealing with God.

Jill Scott

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

Jill Scott

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

Jeff Gordon

I'm not a robot; I have a personality and I have emotions. I have a humorous side to me and an angry side to me.

Jean Rhys

The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

Jean Vanier

We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity

Jean de La Fontaine

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Jerry Saltz

Scandal is only human.

Jerry Seinfeld

I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away."

Jerome K. Jerome

The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.

Jens Stoltenberg

The answer to violence is even more democracy. Even more humanity.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Go to humorous events at comedy clubs and watch laughable movies.

Jean-Marc Vallee

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

Jean Houston

Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.

Jean Houston

We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.

James Caan

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.

James C. Collins

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

James C. Collins

Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.

James C. Collins

The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.

James A. Baldwin

A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.

James A. Baldwin

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

Jackie Gleason

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

Jackie Mason

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?