Famous Quotes & Sayings

Enoch Powell

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

James F. Cooper

We are all human, and all do wrong.

James Balog

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

James Balog

I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me the meaning of humility, and my work with the ice has taught me the meaning of mortality.

Friedrich Schiller

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Lynn Johnston

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too

Luis Federico Leloir

I might paraphrase Churchill and say: never have I received so much for so little.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Luc de Clapiers

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

Luc de Clapiers

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.

Luc de Clapiers

We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves...

Lord Chesterfield

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

John Cleese

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

John Cleese

We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.

John Bright

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

John Buchan

Without humility there can be no humanity.

John Boyega

I remember my manager telling me, Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first. Those words were very helpful.

John Bevere

Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can’t easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

John Bevere

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

Leslie Nielsen

You could respond to it on a very human basis.

Orson Scott Card

Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?

We know that humans are influencing the climate. There's no question about that.

You find humor in the weirdest things down there, you're just looking for reasons to laugh, it was just - there's no words for it. It was unbelievable.

Robert Kiyosaki

Those who are humble enough to learn anew will succeed in this new age.

Robert Kiyosaki

Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

Peter Stormare

I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

Sebastian Junger

There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situation where you can save a human life, you must. There isn't any conflict in my mind.

Tim White

The key here is the sequences. It's about a mile thickness of rocks in the Middle Awash and in it we can see all three phases of human evolution.