Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

Charles Dickens

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

Charles Spurgeon

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

Charles Spurgeon

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.

Charles Spurgeon

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

Alan Watts

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

Alan Hansen

Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow when the Spirit chooses another to lead.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

Djuna Barnes

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

Djuna Barnes

I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

David Krumholtz

It was a frying-pan-to-the-face moment for me where I had to get humble and really cherish it. I was really sad when [Numbers] was over. I'll just say that. Really sad.

David Dewhurst

Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.

David Rudisha

I love my tribe, the Maasai are very good people and humble.

Manny Pacquiao

For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Bob Newhart

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

Billy Donovan

You can do one of two things: You can humble yourself or life will humble you. I think it's a lot easier to find a way to humble yourself.

Edward Gibbon

Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.

Edward Gibbon

The character of the tribunes was, in every respect, different from that of the consuls. The appearance of the former was modest and humble; but their persons were sacred and inviolable. Their force was suited rather for opposition than for action. They were instituted to defend the oppressed, to pardon offences, to arraign the enemies of the people, and, when they judged it necessary, to stop, by a single word, the whole machine of government.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

As you accept the responsibility to seek after truth with an open mind and a humble heart, you will become more tolerant of others, more open to listen, more prepared to understand, more inclined to build up instead of tearing down, and you will be more willing to go where God wants you to go,

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

If the Savior were among us today, we would find Him where He always was-ministering to the meek, the downcast, the humble, the distressed, and the poor in spirit. During this Christmas season and always, may we give to Him by loving as He loves.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.

Edmund Waller

Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.

Benjamin Franklin

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Benjamin Franklin

Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.

Benjamin Franklin

In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.

Ariel Pink

Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.

Bernard Baruch

Become more humble as the market goes your way.

Cass Gilbert

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.

Anne Sullivan

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.