Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

Marc Anthony

I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it.

Margaret Thatcher

[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.

Lajos Kossuth

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

Mac Davis

Oh lord, it's hard to be humble when your perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, cause I get better looking each day.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

Louis Farrakhan

I am giving them a Warning and a Guidance from God to help them to do that which will save America. And I warn them that these calamities are going to increase now in severity so America might humble herself to that call of God to let the Black man and woman go. It is the time that we should separate to go free and that America should provide us with land and implements that would allow us to build a future for ourselves - for they have proved to be disagreeable to live with in peace.

Margaret Smith

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

Mark Twain

Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

Nicki Minaj

Clap for the heavy weight champ ME But I couldn't do it all alone WE

Nicki Minaj

I don't need to Google myself.

Mark Twain

Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

Nicholas Stoller

Maybe I'm just not that humble but our script is awesome. Like Jason is so into the Muppets and such a fan. I'm such a fan of Muppets.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

Oswald Chambers

Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

Paul Samuelson

Economists have much to be humble about.

Michel de Montaigne

A man may be humble through vainglory.

Michel de Montaigne

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.

Michael Kinsley

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

Mark Twain

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

Marianne Williamson

The soul force we need in America today, more than any other, is the spirit of atonement. We need to humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness for the things we have done wrong. We need to ask God to forgive us for our arrogance.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

George Washington

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

G. H. Hardy

Good work is not done by 'humble' men

G. H. Hardy

Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking "Is what I do worth while?" and "Am I the right person to do it?" will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. This is not too difficult: it is harder not to make his subject and himself ridiculous by shutting his eyes too tightly.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.

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.

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.

John C. Maxwell

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