Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Templeton

In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career did help me to become more and more humble because statistics showed that when I advised a client to buy one stock to replace another, about one-third of the time the client would have done better to ignore my advice. In other endeavors, humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

John Templeton

Work at being a humble person.

John Stott

Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

John Steinbeck

It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.

John Piper

Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.

Martin Luther

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Mark Pincus

I think failing is the best way to keep you grounded, curious, and humble. Success is dangerous because often you don't understand why you succeeded. You almost always know why you've failed. You have a lot of time to think about it.

Tom Hiddleston

Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't.

Tom Coughlin

Humble enough to prepare, confident enough to perform.

Rajneesh

Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.

Rajneesh

Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don't be in a hurry to sacrifice it, otherwise the greatest egoist is born: the person who thinks he is humble, the person who thinks that he has no ego.

Margaret Mead

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

Ravi Zacharias

Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

Eric Hoffer

Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.

Enoch Powell

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

Henry B. Eyring

If you will be humble and ask God what to do, I promise you that he will always prepare a way for your deliverance.

Henry A. Kissinger

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

Henry David Thoreau

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

Ledisi

Let your work speak for you.Stay humble.And just DO the work.

Lee Ann Womack

A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things.

LeBron James

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

LeBron James

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Larry Hagman

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

Lynn Johnston

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too

Luc de Clapiers

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.

Shawn Ryan

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

Sherwood Anderson

Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.

Nikita Khrushchev

No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.

N. T. Wright

God build’s God’s kingdom. But God ordered this world in such a way that His own work within that world takes place through the human beings that reflect His image. That is central to the notion of being made in God’s image. He has enlisted us to act as His stewards in the project of creation. So the objection about us trying to build God’s kingdom by our own efforts, though it seems humble and pious, can actually be a way of hiding from responsibility, of keeping one’s head well down when the boss is looking for volunteers.

N. T. Wright

Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

Philip James Bailey

My favoured temple is an humble heart.

Paulo Coelho

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.