Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.

We must show humility and be humble, ... And we must turn away from ways that are unpleasing to God.

William Shakespeare

GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

We have a strong spirit and humility in the team.

Clayton Christensen

What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

D. J. MacHale

You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.

D. A. Carson

If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.

D. H. Lawrence

We are so conceited and so unproud.

Alexander MacLaren

Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .

E. M. Forster

I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour.

Doug Melvin

To toughen up, is to calm down.

Dale Carnegie

Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind that Al Capone had. Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was. . . . For it is those things - and only those things - that made him what he was. . . . You deserve very little credit for being what you are - and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are.

Constantin Stanislavski

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

Dwight L. Moody

A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.

David Livingstone

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

Confucius

These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

Dallas Willard

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

Dalai Lama

The world will be saved by the western woman.

Deborah Ann Woll

I think what matures us is time, not necessarily our physical bodies. So I think she can probably change as much as human would in the timespan of the show. However, I do think as a human you reach a point where there's a certain amount of humility and acceptance of life and its consequences when you see your own body change and age, and the pounds come or the wrinkles come.

Alphonsus Liguori

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

Alfred Austin

There is no gardening without humility

Alfred Adler

It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

Anthony Bourdain

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

Amanda Seyfried

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

Anselm of Canterbury

Disasters teach us humility.

Ann Veneman

Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world a better place. Everyday Ambassador is a refreshing approach which encourages collaborative work with focus, empathy, humility and patience to better affect positive change in communities throughout the world.

Amy Carmichael

If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Andy Murray

We must make humility the chief thing we admire in Him.

Ambrose Bierce

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

Ani Difranco

So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.

Andrew Murray

The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.

Andrew Murray

Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.

Andrew Murray

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.