Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Philip James Bailey

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.

Peter Akinola

Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.

Paulo Coelho

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Performance leads to recognition. Recognition brings respect. Respect enhances power. Humility and grace in one's moments of power enhances dignity of an organisation,

Socrates

How many are the things I can do without!

Jimmy Iovine

Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.

Madeleine L'Engle

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

Jonathan Edwards

All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where one is wanting, all are wanting. Where there is faith, there are love, and hope, and humility; and where there is love, there is also trust; and where there is a holy trust in God, there is love to God; and where there is a gracious hope, there also is a holy fear of God.

Jonathan Edwards

We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

Jonathan Edwards

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

Jonas Salk

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

John le Carre

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

Jim Rohn

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.

John Burdett

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

John Bunyan

Humility is the light of the understanding.

John Heywood

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

John Donne

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

John Dewey

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

John Calvin

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

Joe Klein

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Joan Rivers

Comedy - and I say this with humility - comedy needs me.

James Montgomery

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

James Macdonald

Humility is a do thing, not a feel thing. Humility is an action, not a style.

James Macdonald

Humility is losing yourself in the doing of serving.

Jim Yong Kim

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Eric Ludy

Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong.

Eric Ludy

The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.

Lord Byron

She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe: nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears-- which I had not; And tenderness-- but that I had for her; Humility-- and that I never had. Her faults were mine-- her virtues were her own-- I loved her, and destroy'd her!