Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Augustine

The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Tryon Edwards

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Richard Curtis

We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.

Rick Warren

Humility is not denying your strengths, humility is being honest about your weaknesses.

Rick Warren

We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from the same root word. If you can laugh at yourself, you'll always have plenty of good material.

Vince Lombardi

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

The true test of humility is whether you can say grace before eating crow.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

Saul Bellow

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

Sarah Ferguson

Humility comes from understanding that the obstacles in front of you are not going to go away.

Robert M. Gates

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.

Sarah MacLean

You cheated!” He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for that accusation.” “And I assure you, my lord, that I would ride forth victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.” “Are you quoting the Bible to me?” “Indeed,” she said primly, the portrait of piousness. “While gambling.” “What better location to attempt to reform one such as you?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.

Samuel Johnson

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

Warren Buffett

Exercise humility and restraint.

Virginia Woolf

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

Wentworth Miller

I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.

Samuel Richardson

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

Samuel Richardson

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

Rudolf Steiner

Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.

W. S. Gilbert

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

William Cowper

True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear: Humility the parent of the first, The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.

William Gurnall

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

William Arthur Ward

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

Washington Allston

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

Walter Lippmann

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

Walter Russell

My power will be in humility.

William Safire

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

William S. Burroughs

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

William Maxwell

People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.