Famous Quotes & Sayings

If I had only 50 people, that would have been good. Obviously, having 250 people is great. It is only human to try and search for a better life for your children.

John Key

I care about people's human rights and, as a country, we have a very proud record indeed. But I'm also realistic about what we can do... we can raise those issues with leaders and we can talk about those issues, and we do that.

I don't think there is any more moving instance on human relations today than the story of her family.

Arthur Phillips

I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.

Socrates

How many are the things I can do without!

Eoin Colfer

Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.

Emily VanCamp

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Elvis Costello

I find humming is very useful.

Elon Musk

For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

Jasper Fforde

I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.

Jason Russell

Humanities' greatest desire is to belong and connect.

Jason Mraz

Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time.

Hillary Clinton

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

Hillary Clinton

When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.

Herbert Hoover

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

Eugene Delacroix

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.

Isabelle Adjani

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

Jack London

They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans]

Jack Benny

I gambled at the crap table all night and finally lost $8, but during that time the house gave me four drinks and two cigars, so it was still a lot cheaper than renting a room.

J. C. Watts

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

J. C. Ryle

All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

J. C. Ryle

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

J. C. Ryle

The surest mark of true conversion is humility.

J. C. Ryle

We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

J. C. Ryle

‎"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle

J. C. Ryle

Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is so likely to keep a person out of heaven, and prevent them from seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something we shall never be saved. Let us pray for and cultivate humility; let us seek to know ourselves correctly, and to find out our place in the sight of a holy God.

A man who is truly humble is not troubled when he is wronged and he says nothing to justify himself against the injustice, but he accepts slander as truth; he does not attempt to persuade men that he is calumniated, but he begs forgiveness.

If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble, he will not receive a reward for his labor. Recompense is given, not for labor, but for humility.

Humility collects the soul into a single point by the power of silence. A truly humble man has no desire to be known or admired by others, but wishes to plunge from himself into himself, to become nothing, as if he had never been born. When he is completely hidden to himself in himself, he is completely with God

Isaac Watts

When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.

Irving Babbitt

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

Irving Babbitt

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.