Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stuart Rose

Three weeks is a long time in retail and there was no humble pie eaten,

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.

Anne Sullivan

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

What they try and instill in us is to work hard, stay humble and just keep working. That's what we did last year and it paid off.

Nothing like a jail sentence to humble you.

Dominic Purcell

I'm very appreciative and humbled by the success of 'Prison Break.'

I want to say that I was very humbled and very moved by the selection by Time magazine,

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.

Don Marquis

personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

Rosa Parks

if she could not survive as humble and as sweet as she was in a segregated society ? nobody could survive.

Jack Lemmon

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

Jack Kirby

An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals.

Jack Kirby

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

J. I. Packer

God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.

J. I. Packer

Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.

J. C. Ryle

All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

J. C. Ryle

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

J. C. Ryle

‎"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle

A man who is truly humble is not troubled when he is wronged and he says nothing to justify himself against the injustice, but he accepts slander as truth; he does not attempt to persuade men that he is calumniated, but he begs forgiveness.

Humility collects the soul into a single point by the power of silence. A truly humble man has no desire to be known or admired by others, but wishes to plunge from himself into himself, to become nothing, as if he had never been born. When he is completely hidden to himself in himself, he is completely with God

Hannah More

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

He steps up in big games. That's the thing about him, he's a level-headed kid, humble kid, and he works hard. He doesn't need the limelight, he just wants to go play.

Greg Davis

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

Norm Coleman

I am so humbled by the love and outpouring of support.

The response has just been overwhelming to this point. I'm very humbled by the overwhelming support we've been receiving.

We're very humbled to be in your presence.

Orson Scott Card

Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?

Robert Kiyosaki

Those who are humble enough to learn anew will succeed in this new age.

For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of prosperity the mind is elated, and in prosperity a man forgets himself; in hardship he is forced to reflect on himself, even though he be unwilling. In prosperity a man often destroys the good he has done; amidst difficulties he often repairs what he long since did in the way of wickedness.

Well, if people don't know a lot about him there's a reason for it: it's because he's not one that has been a self-promoter. He's somebody who is very humble and very private in that respect.

Stephen Jay Gould

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