Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Baxter

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

William Maxwell

People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ask themselves, and even there they do not fail by much...But it takes time, it takes humility and a serious reason for searching.

William McDonough

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

Vance Havner

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

W. S. Gilbert

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

Saint Francis de Sales

True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

Milan Kundera

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

Mike Mason

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

Eric Liu

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.

Keyshawn Johnson

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.

Henry Blodget

Arrogance follows distribution strength.

Jon Landau

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.

Sandra Navarro

The magnitude of this public corruption will only be matched by the arrogance of the man who committed these acts.

Jim Calhoun

Their arrogance doesn't show. They are not doing any kind of chest thumping that some teams carry, in my opinion, too far.

James Corden

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

Os Guinness

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

Alice Lowe

Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

Steve Earle

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Anton LaVey

ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God.

Rob Zombie

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

Richard Pousette-Dart

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

Richard Posner

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

Richard Paul Evans

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

Richard Whately

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

Ryan Miller

I'm not suggesting that I have all the answers or that I have experienced everything someone else has. I'm a firm believer that everyone's life/spiritual journey is unique and personal, and I'm in no place to tell you what you have or have not experienced. However, I CAN tell you what I have experienced and learned, and I hope it is of use to someone out there.