Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Baxter

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

Richard Baxter

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

Rebecca West

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Saint Augustine

The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Russell Brand

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.

Timothy Leary

Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.

Thomas S. Monson

True love can alter human lives and change human nature.

Thomas Reed

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Richard Leakey

It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today.

Richard Louv

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

Richard M. Nixon

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Richard Schickel

He who does not like you will defame you in jest.

Richard G. Scott

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Rich Mullins

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

Robert Crumb

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

Richard Rohr

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

Richard Rohr

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

Tullian Tchividjian

God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put away, and that everything we need, in Christ we already possess. This re-convincing produces humility, because we realize that our needs are fulfilled. We don’t have to worry about ourselves anymore. This in turn frees us to stop looking out for what we think we need and liberates us to love our neighbor by looking out for what they need.

Trevor Nunn

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

Trey Parker

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

Saul Bellow

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

Sarah Ferguson

Humility comes from understanding that the obstacles in front of you are not going to go away.

Roger Moore

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.

Rod McKuen

Extending your hand is extending yourself.

Robert M. Gates

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.

Sarah Kane

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

Sarah MacLean

You cheated!” He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for that accusation.” “And I assure you, my lord, that I would ride forth victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.” “Are you quoting the Bible to me?” “Indeed,” she said primly, the portrait of piousness. “While gambling.” “What better location to attempt to reform one such as you?

Sandra Postel

Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.

Sandra Bernhard

I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.