Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Mandela

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

Nelson Mandela

If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble.

Neil Young

Holding back is so close to stealing.

Mike Huckabee

Life question reflects nation's nature & equality of humans.

Niccolo Machiavelli

You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Ken Thompson

The steady state of disks is full.

Ken Follett

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

Ken Blanchard

Take yourself seriously but take yourself lightly.

Ken Blanchard

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

Ken Blanchard

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

Oscar Levant

I am no more humble than my talents require.

Omar Suleiman

Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).

Oliver Goldsmith

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Oliver Goldsmith

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.

Okky Madasari

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

Marc Anthony

I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.

Kevin Myers

It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance.

Ken Livingstone

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

Kathryn Lasky

To find one's special quality One must lead a life of deep humility. To serve in this way Never question but obey Is the blessing of St Aggie's charity. - The owls of St. Aegolius

Margaret Thatcher

[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.

Margaret Chan

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

Mark Twain

I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

Lajos Kossuth

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

L. Neil Smith

Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.

Patti LaBelle

People with no humor, they're outta my life.

Oscar Wilde

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

Oscar Wilde

He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

Oscar Wilde

Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

Madonna Ciccone

I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.

Mac Davis

Oh lord, it's hard to be humble when your perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, cause I get better looking each day.

Louis Kronenberger

Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.