Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Humility and full consciousness are inseparable.

Aung San Suu Kyi

As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.

Charles Spurgeon

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

Denis Hayes

Asbestos, EMFs, and CFCs have given us a degree of humility. When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be today's deadly threat to the global environment, it is legitimate to ask what else we don't know.

Brother Lawrence

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

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."

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.

Anthony Bourdain

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

Graeme Simsion

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept