Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Samuel Johnson

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

William Howard Taft

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

Willa Cather

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

Warren Buffett

Exercise humility and restraint.

Wayne Dyer

I am realistic – I expect miracles.

Virginia Woolf

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

William Blackstone

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

William Bernbach

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?

William Blake

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

Wendy Wasserstein

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

Wendy Wasserstein

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

Wentworth Miller

I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.

Wayne Shorter

Your humanity is your instrument.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Wale

Riding in another drop, ain't talking Enterprise They try to see me, get diabetes from humble pie

Wallace Stegner

I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

Samuel Richardson

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Samuel Richardson

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

Samuel Richardson

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Samuel Richardson

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

Samuel Richardson

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Samuel Richardson

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.