Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Gray

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.

Thomas B. Macaulay

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Tim Tebow

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

Tim Tebow

There are several things that keep me grounded and focused... When you can humble yourself to say 'I'm no more important than anyone else. I just have a gift.'

Tim Tebow

For me, it's a great opportunity on a public platform to get on your knees and humble myself and thank the Lord for all the blessings he's put in my life.

Tim Tebow

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

Tim Berners-Lee

I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.

Thomas Ligotti

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

Thomas Goodwin

The most thankful person is the most fully human.

Thomas Keating

We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.

Thomas Keating

The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.

Thomas Keating

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Thomas Adams

Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Fact is stranger than fiction.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty .... Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.

Thomas Brooks

An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.

Thomas Brooks

Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

Thomas Brooks

Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.

Thomas Brooks

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.

Victoria Clark

Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.

Victoria Beckham

I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way.

Victor Kiam

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Victor Davis Hanson

Ancient wisdom: deal in personal trust; your word is your bond; avoid extremes; treat the money you invest for others as something sacred; don't take any more perks than you would wish others to take; don't borrow what you couldn't suddenly pay back; imagine the worse case financial scenario and expect it very may well happen; the wealthier you become the more humble you should act.

Victor Hugo

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

Russell Simmons

At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.

Ronald Reagan

This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.

Ronald Reagan

I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.

Ronald Reagan

[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

Ronald Reagan

Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.

Ronald Reagan

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

Ron Paul

Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.