Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Donald Miller

In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

Dalai Lama

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

Dalai Lama

If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice

Dalai Lama

The world will be saved by the western woman.

Benjamin Whichcote

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

Billy Graham

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

Stephen Jay Gould

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Thomas Fuller

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Robert Kiyosaki

Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.

Corrie Ten Boom

If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.

Cornel West

The humanity and the humility, which are very different than the biological species homo sapiens. Humanity versus homo sapiens - very different things. We are biological creatures, we are animals, no doubt, but when you talk about "humando," you're talking about that particular kind of animals who are aware of their impending extinction, who have the capacity to be sensitive to catastrophe and disaster and calamity and profound crisis.

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.

David Eddings

Zakath's face grew thoughtful. "You know something, Garion?" he said. "Man thinks he owns the world, but we share it with all sorts of creatures who are indifferent to our overlordship. They have their own societies, and I supposed even their own cultures. They don't even pay attention to us, do you?" "Only when we inconvenience them...It teaches us humility," Garion agreed.

Dag Hammarskjold

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

Claude Vorilhon

Humility is always proof of intelligence

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom

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.

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.

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.

Agatha Christie

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

William Shakespeare

I have sounded the very base-string of humility.

Alexandre Dumas

Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.