Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry A. Kissinger

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Helen Fisher

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.

Henry George

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

Henry Cantwell Wallace

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

Hector Berlioz

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Henry David Thoreau

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Henry David Thoreau

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Henry David Thoreau

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

Henry Ford

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

Mahatma Gandhi

For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

Mahatma Gandhi

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi

If untouchability lives, humanity must die.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

Mahatma Gandhi

India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity.

Johannes Tauler

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

John Adams

Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more infallible than this, "where annual elections end, there slavery begins." These great men ... should be (chosen) once a year-Like bubbles on the sea of matter bourne, they rise, they break, and to the sea return. This will teach them the great political virtues of humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

John Adams

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

John Adams

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

Joe Orton

The humble and meek are thirsting for lood

Cynthia Ozick

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

Sathya Baba

The development of the society, the state and the nation is proportionate to the development of the Human

Eric Hoffer

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Eric Hoffer

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Eric Hoffer

There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.

Eric Hoffer

Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.

Eric Hoffer

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

Eric Hoffer

Language was invented to ask questions.

Eric Hoffer

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

Eric Hoffer

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.