Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Polkinghorne

The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take seriously its claim that the world is the creation of god, must be humble enough to learn from science what that world is actually like. The dialogue between them can only be mutually enriching.

Matthew Arnold

If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.

Max Schmeling

I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.

Maurice Clarett

It's a humbling thing being humble.

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.

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.

Max Euwe

I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.

Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can achieve, more confident of his own humanity as against computers and robots which are only engines to simulate him.

Matthew Henry

Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.

Mark Driscoll

Everyone has something to teach you if you are humble enough to learn.

Teresa Palmer

I came from rather humble beginnings.

Teresa Palmer

I think Aussies try to stay humble.

Margaret Mead

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

Mike James

I'm probably one of the must humble people you'll ever meet.

Greg Davis

I'm very humbled to be the recipient of this award.

Joseph Addison

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Joseph Addison

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Larry Hagman

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

The humble servant of the Lord loves to meditate on the Formless Lord.

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.

Johannes Tauler

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

Joe Orton

The humble and meek are thirsting for lood

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.