Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Macdonald

Humility is losing yourself in the doing of serving.

Novalis

Humanity is a comic role.

Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

Norman Vincent Peale

Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

Emile Zola

It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.

Emile M. Cioran

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

Ellen Glasgow

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

Ellen Glasgow

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

Ellen Glasgow

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

Ellen Glasgow

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

Ellen G. White

So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.

Ellen G. White

God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.

Ellen G. White

The life of Christ was a life charged with a divine message of the love of God, and He longed intensely to impart this love to others in rich measure. Compassion beamed from His countenance, and His conduct was characterized by grace, humility, truth, and love. Every member of His church militant must manifest the same qualities, if he would join the church triumphant.

Ellen G. White

The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in all things.

Eric Schmidt

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

Emily Carr

I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough.

Ella Maillart

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

Robert Frost

All the fun's in how you say a thing

Donald Rumsfeld

All the instructions I issued required humane treatment, ... Anything that was done that was not humane has been prosecuted.

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.

Henri Nouwen

Community is where humility and glory touch.

Heidi Montag

I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.

Heidi Julavits

I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This story is meant to winch your ribs open and tamper with your heart. This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.

Hjalmar Branting

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

Henry Rollins

I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.

Heinrich Heine

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

Hilaire Belloc

But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.

Henry Ward Beecher

Mirth is God's medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

Some people are proud of their humility.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

Henry Ward Beecher

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

Henry Clay

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.