Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Muir

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

John Wesley

Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.

John Todd

Do not practise excessive humility.

John Stott

These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.

John Piper

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

Martin Luther

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

Seth Gordon

I have a healthy amount of humility.

Seth Godin

I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.

Seth Godin

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

Ravi Zacharias

Study hard. Understand not only the questions, but the questioner. Know how best to articulate the answers, but do it with humility, because ultimately the answer is in a person, the person of Christ, not in an argument. So, do your work and know how to present the answer, but do it with gentleness and meekness.

Rajneesh

You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

Socrates

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

Michael Shannon

Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

Michael Shermer

If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the deep space discovered by Hubble and the cosmologists, and the deep time discovered by Darwin and the evolutionists.

Theodore C. Sorensen

Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an inate resistance to innovation.

Kimbra

. The key to all of that is keeping hold of humility and keeping hold of the people around you, and making sure you stay grounded with your family and friends.

Michael Steinhardt

A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

Ravi Zacharias

In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is called to see it in abject humility.

Eric Hoffer

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

Eric Hoffer

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

James Balog

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

James Balog

I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me the meaning of humility, and my work with the ice has taught me the meaning of mortality.

Hector Berlioz

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Henry David Thoreau

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Pablo Casals

To be a musician is a great privilege but it is also a very great responsibility. One must think that to be a musician is a gift - a gift from Nature. There is no great merit in us except in loving this gift with respect and devotion and doing everything possible to honor that gift by work and more work. We must work with conviction and humility, searching for beauty, simplicity, and the Truth. And it is for us musicians to do all in our power for a better world. Music must carry the message of beauty, of love and of peace.

Paulo Freire

Dialogue cannot exist without humility.

John Selden

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

John Selden

Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servants, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

James Lee Burke

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

James Russell Lowell

Humbleness is always grace; always dignity

James Russell Lowell

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

James F. Cooper

The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management.

Laurence J. Peter

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us