Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel de Cervantes

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos-and our humble place within it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

John Newton

To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.

John Newton

What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?

John Muir

We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers in the ordinary sense. They make many journeys, not extensive ones, it is true; but our own little journeys, away and back again, are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.

John Muir

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

John Wesley

Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.

John Wall

You've got to stay humble and hungry. Just keep working and thank God you have a chance to play in the NBA.

John Todd

Do not practise excessive humility.

John Townsend

...the central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.

John Templeton

In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career did help me to become more and more humble because statistics showed that when I advised a client to buy one stock to replace another, about one-third of the time the client would have done better to ignore my advice. In other endeavors, humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

John Templeton

Work at being a humble person.

John Stott

Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

John Stott

These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.

John Steinbeck

It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.

Shawn Wayans

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Shawn Ryan

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

Rafael Nadal

When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my forehand harder. But the truth was this was like an avalanche, and there was no way to stop it.

Sherwood Anderson

Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.

Nikita Khrushchev

No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.

Nicolas Chamfort

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Noomi Rapace

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

Nikola Tesla

If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Performance leads to recognition. Recognition brings respect. Respect enhances power. Humility and grace in one's moments of power enhances dignity of an organisation,

N. T. Wright

God build’s God’s kingdom. But God ordered this world in such a way that His own work within that world takes place through the human beings that reflect His image. That is central to the notion of being made in God’s image. He has enlisted us to act as His stewards in the project of creation. So the objection about us trying to build God’s kingdom by our own efforts, though it seems humble and pious, can actually be a way of hiding from responsibility, of keeping one’s head well down when the boss is looking for volunteers.

N. T. Wright

Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

N. T. Wright

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

Johnny Giles

Sam Allardyce should learn a bit of humidity

John Ruskin

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

John Polkinghorne

The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take seriously its claim that the world is the creation of god, must be humble enough to learn from science what that world is actually like. The dialogue between them can only be mutually enriching.

Matthew Arnold

If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.