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.

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.

Kenneth Clark

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

Kerry Collins

I take pride in the way I play, ... This organization has treated me well. I still have a lot of fight. Every time I go out there I am going to give it my best.

Paul Hatch

I take pride in being a results-oriented person.

Bill Freeman

I think it's just pride in the United States, period,

Richelle Mead

Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.'' ''Only one, huh?'' I spoke lightly, but his words had thrilled me. He'd meant what he said about thinking those were wonderful traits, and feeling his pride in me meant more than anything just then.

Umberto Eco

A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

William Wordsworth

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Robert Mugabe

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

Samuel Johnson

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

William Howard Taft

Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible..

Darlene McIntosh

He didn't hit her, but he destroyed everything she had. I don't know if she even realized it was abuse, because it wasn't physical. It was mental. People don't think of that as being abused.

Lee Mendelson

We thought we had destroyed Peanuts . It just didn't work. And the network didn't like it. It was too slow; we had used kids' voices and that jazz music.

Samir Mathur

I think that most people gave up on the idea that information was destroyed once the idea of string theory rose to prominence in 1995. It's just that nobody has been able to prove that the information survives before now.

Karl Turner

I will never get over this. This has just about destroyed me.

Noam Chomsky

If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably go to war.

Richard Engel

The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas's tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about.

Jose Serrano

They killed children. They killed innocent people and destroyed poor people's houses, ... It's the world's most discredited guerrilla movement.

Taylor Swift

Any relationship I ever have will have to be hidden, or else it will be destroyed before it even starts.

Richard Riordan

the lawlessness of so-called fans who destroyed property and endangered the safety of fans and families in the vicinity.