Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shirley Manson

It is YOU who is so busy disrespecting artistry. You disrespect your own remarkable talents and more importantly you disrespect the talent, hard work, and tenacity of all artists when you go so rudely and savagely after such an accomplished and humble artist like BECK.

Steven Pressfield

That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some of them, conduct themselves flamboyantly in public. But alone with the work they are chaste and humble. They know they are not the source of the creations they bring into being. They only facilitate. They carry. They are the willing and skilled instruments of the gods and goddesses they serve.

Steven Curtis Chapman

As soon as you're willing to humble yourself and say, God, please help - then you can find out that His strength really is perfect, that He really does care for you, that He does really want to meet your need.

Robert Browning

As if true pride Were not also humble!

Tariq Ramadan

Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.

Tariq Ramadan

Stand up for your values, be courageous and humble

Kevin Hart

Sometimes when you hear so much and everybody is praising you, you can get lost in that. You can start thinking that you are on a higher pedestal than everyone else. So I try to stay level headed, humble and the best way to do that is to not really acknowledge it that much. I just keep grinding and working as hard as I can. I also set my goals higher so that I don't have time to be content with my place in life and in my career.

Kevin Hart

The people around me haven't changed. The people who have been in my life since the beginning are still in my life now. I think that has a lot to do with my staying grounded and humble despite the success I've achieved.

Kevin Hart

Being humble matters.

Kent Nerburn

Our actions in this world, and our ability to rise above the limits of our own self-interest, live on far beyond us and play their humble part in shaping a world of spirituality and peace.

Kent Nerburn

Place yourself among those who carry on their lives with passion, and true learning will take place, no matter how humble or exalted the setting. But no matter what path you follow, do not be ashamed of your learning. In some corner of your life, you know more about something than anyone else on earth. The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

Katy Perry

I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.

Leo Baekeland

If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my humble efforts to use Science to the betterment of the human race. I despair of the helter-skelter methods of our vaulted homo sapiens, misguided by his ignorance and his politicians. If we continue our ways, there is every possibility that the human race may follow the road of former living races of animals whose fossils proclaim that they were not fit to continue. Religion, laws and morals is not enough. We need more. Science can help us.

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.

Charles Davis

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

Richelle Mead

How do you know it was the blighted pile? Did you recognize Maiwenn’s gift?” “No, but there was a marble bust of Dorian in there, which I figured must have been his kingdom’s ‘humble’ gift.

Richard Baxter

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

Rose George

The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.

Roger McDowell

I've experienced every aspect of pitching. I know the reality of what these guys are going through. You can be going good, and the game is going to humble you. But the challenge is how to get through the difficult times.

Rick Warren

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

Rick Warren

The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve those with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you're honored by others.

Rick Warren

Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?

Peter Greenaway

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.

Periander

However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.

Mary Oliver

Do you cherish your humble and silky life?

Pierre Charron

Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.