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.

Tariq Ramadan

Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.

Baha'u'llah

Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

Ayn Rand

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Ayn Rand

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

Ayn Rand

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

Brian Tracy

Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

Brad Pitt

It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.

Jan Morris

[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.

C. S. Lewis

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

Jane Jacobs

Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.

Edgar Mitchell

I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.

John Milton

They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.

Theodore Bikel

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

Michael Gove

I will lay out my plan for the United Kingdom which I hope can provide unity and change.

Cat Stevens

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.

Irving Babbitt

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

Henry David Thoreau

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.