Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Mikes

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Humility has the toughest hide.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

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?

Joyce Carol Oates

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Julie Delpy

I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.

Thomas Aquinas

Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.

Simone Weil

There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.

Simone Weil

Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul , not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change . There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.

Simone Weil

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

Simone Weil

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Simone Weil

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

Simone Weil

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Simon Sinek

Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.

Sri Chinmoy

Spirituality is the science that teaches us how to achieve peace of mind and supreme satisfaction. Right now we are hankering after many, many things, but nothing we get satisfies us. Spirituality tells us that satisfaction can be found only if we lead a good and divine life-a life of simplicity, purity and humility.

Sri Chinmoy

When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to offer, remains erect. But when the tree is laden with fruit, it bends down. If you are all pride and ego, then nobody will be able to get anything worthwhile from you. When you have genuine humility, it is a sign that you have something to offer to mankind.

Thomas Merton

A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.

Thomas Merton

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

Ray McKinnon

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

Robert Wagner

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

Richard P. Feynman

The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

Richard P. Feynman

We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true".

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.

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.