Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

Mark Pincus

I think failing is the best way to keep you grounded, curious, and humble. Success is dangerous because often you don't understand why you succeeded. You almost always know why you've failed. You have a lot of time to think about it.

Marilyn French

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

Nick Bostrom

Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.

Mose Allison

There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.

Seth Gordon

I have a healthy amount of humility.

Seth Godin

We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.

Seth Godin

I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.

Seth Godin

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

Seth Godin

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

Ravi Zacharias

The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence in human methods diminishes.

Ravi Zacharias

Study hard. Understand not only the questions, but the questioner. Know how best to articulate the answers, but do it with humility, because ultimately the answer is in a person, the person of Christ, not in an argument. So, do your work and know how to present the answer, but do it with gentleness and meekness.

Tom Hiddleston

Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't.

Tom Coughlin

Humble enough to prepare, confident enough to perform.

Rajneesh

You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

Rajneesh

Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

Rajneesh

Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.

Rajneesh

Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don't be in a hurry to sacrifice it, otherwise the greatest egoist is born: the person who thinks he is humble, the person who thinks that he has no ego.

Socrates

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

Michael B. Jordan

For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.

Michael Shannon

Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

Michael Shermer

If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the deep space discovered by Hubble and the cosmologists, and the deep time discovered by Darwin and the evolutionists.

Theodore C. Sorensen

Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an inate resistance to innovation.

Theodore Hesburgh

I'll have another beer. I'm not driving.

Thelonious Monk

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

Terry Pratchett

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

Terry Pratchett

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Terry Pratchett

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

Margaret Mead

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

Margaret Mead

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Margaret Mead

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

Margaret Mead

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Margaret Halsey

Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.