Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Vaughan

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

Arlen Specter

Judge Roberts has projected a very unique persona as he has talked about modesty and humility,

Benjamin Whichcote

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

Charlie Sheen

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

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.

Jimmy Carter

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

James Montgomery

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

James Macdonald

Humility is a do thing, not a feel thing. Humility is an action, not a style.

James Macdonald

Humility is losing yourself in the doing of serving.

John Donne

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

John Dewey

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

John Calvin

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

Joe Klein

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

Joan Rivers

Comedy - and I say this with humility - comedy needs me.

Francois Fenelon

The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.

Francois Fenelon

The most essential point is lowliness.

Francois Fenelon

There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be persuaded that nothing is due to us, and then nothing will disturb us. Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we will become indulgent towards those of others.

Francois Fenelon

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

Francois Truffaut

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

George Clooney

I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.

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.

Hermann Hesse

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Joseph Addison

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Jonathan Swift

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Kenneth Clark

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

Khaled Hosseini

I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.

Narendra Modi

In democracy, people's verdict is always final and we all have to accept it with humility.

Lois McMaster Bujold

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

Lord Byron

She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe: nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears-- which I had not; And tenderness-- but that I had for her; Humility-- and that I never had. Her faults were mine-- her virtues were her own-- I loved her, and destroy'd her!