Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Jay Gould

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

John Jay

We got humbled (today). We need to scratch and claw to get our way back into a competitive mindset.

A. R. Rahman

I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

C. S. Lewis

Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove, I'm being humble," and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear.

C. S. Lewis

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.

I'm humbled that it comes from our country's and our continent's youth.

Charlie Trotter

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

We have all been humbled by Hurricane Katrina,

Maurice Maeterlinck

No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.

We are humbled by the other nominees in this category. You have made this year one of the most breathtaking and stunning maverick years in American cinema.

John C. Maxwell

The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.

The Lord is Wealthy and Prosperous, so His humble servant should feel totally secure.

James Payn

Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.

James Macdonald

When it's personal and painful, humble yourself.

John Ortberg

We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

John Ortberg

When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

John Calvin

That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.

Gary Cole

Clint Eastwood is a very soft-spoken, humble guy, actually, which helped put somebody like me at ease, who had never worked with somebody as huge as that. I'm sure that's not always the case with legendary people.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is always the secure who are humble.

Jose Mujica

I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent.

Jose Mujica

I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live,

Jordyn Wieber

Staying humble has always been really important to me, and always being proud of what you're representing.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

I do think women generally are more humble.

Napoleon Hill

Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.

Napoleon Bonaparte

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

Livy

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

Livy

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

Mahatma Gandhi

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

Mahatma Gandhi

A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well.

Mahatma Gandhi

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

Freida Pinto

I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.