Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality.

C. S. Lewis

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

C. S. Lewis

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?

C. S. Lewis

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

C. S. Lewis

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

C. S. Lewis

If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

Bryant H. McGill

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

Bryant H. McGill

Humility and full consciousness are inseparable.

Bryant H. McGill

The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.

Charles Darwin

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

Charles Darwin

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Charles Darwin

Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.

Bruce Lee

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

Bruce Lee

Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

Brother Lawrence

I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

Brother Lawrence

Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.

Brother Lawrence

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Edmund Burke

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

E. W. Howe

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

Dwight L. Moody

There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.

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.

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.

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.