Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Davis

It was tough, ... It teaches you a lot -- a lot of humility. You're humbled real quick.

Jenny Lawson

It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

Clinton Portis

That first handoff, it was like, whew, the sky's the limit. At the time, you couldn't have told me we weren't looking at 2,000 yards. But things happen. That keeps you humble and keeps you hungry. It lets you know you can't get the big head. I'd like to think that our struggles last year, being 6-10, made us all better.

A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.

Gordon Getty

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

Gordon Brown

I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's aspirations. I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on people's side.

Gordon B. Hinckley

This cause will roll on in majesty and power to fill the earth. Doors now closed to the preaching of the gospel will be opened. The Almighty, if necessary, may have to shake the nations to humble them and cause them to listen to the servants of the living God. Whatever is needed will come to pass.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The way of the gospel is a simple way. Some of the requirements may appear to you as elementary and unnecessary. Do not spurn them. Humble yourselves and walk in obedience. I promise that the results that follow will be marvelous to behold and satisfying to experience.

Henry David Thoreau

In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,--if it is only to make abetter paste blacking,--and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.

Jill Scott

You have to be humble when you're dealing with God.

Jill Scott

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

Jean Rhys

The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

Jean-Marc Vallee

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

James Caan

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.

James C. Collins

Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.

George Harrison

My life belongs the Lord Krishna now. I'm just the servant of Krishna. I've never been so humble in all my life, and I feel great!

Gary Zukav

An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who are below him or her. It is the inclusiveness of one who responds to the beauty of each soul. ... It is the harmlessness of one who treasures, honours and reveres life in all its forms.

Gary Zukav

The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

Gary Zukav

Humble spirits are free to love and to be who they are. They have no artificial standards to live up to.

Fulton J. Sheen

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

Fulton J. Sheen

Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.

Franklin Pierce

But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the rash counsels of human passion are rejected. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

Franklin Pierce

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

Jim Caviezel

Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.

Jim Courier

One of Nadal’s strengths is that he’s so humble, that he’s surprised at what he has achieved, and that he has never bought into his greatness.

Jeremy Taylor

Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

Jemima Kirke

Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

Georges Duhamel

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

George Whitefield

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

George S. Patton

The most difficult thing about being humble is not being able to brag about it.