Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Adam Clarke

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in 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.

Andrew Murray

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.

Andrew Murray

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

Andrew Murray

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Ann Landers

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

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.

Abraham Maslow

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

Albert Einstein

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility...

Aldo Leopold

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important.

Aldous Huxley

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.

Aldous Huxley

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

Albert Einstein

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

Albert Einstein

What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.

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.

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.

Aesop

Good things come in small packages.

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.