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.

Hector Berlioz

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Ken Johnson

It can be a healthy competition, not a harmful one.

Janet Reno

It also has incredible opportunities to put stuff on there that can be damaging, harmful and hurtful, especially to children,

Akbar Rafsanjani

Harm will not only engulf the Islamic Republic of Iran, but the region and everybody.

Kate Jackson

It is potentially a harmful message to very young kids,

Chris Kelly

I think any more than two years would have been unreasonable. There really wasn't much harm done here.

Rob Bell

Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.

Pope John

Please heed the words of our Holy Father: There is no place in the priestly ministry for those who harm children,

Robert Forney

I know enough jazz harmony to do something already, but to really play something with other people that would be suave and cool.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.

Rig Veda

Knowledge is also the giver of wealth or rather wealth is the by-product of knowledge.

David Smith

The people that have inherited that money have yet to really prove themselves as givers on the same level.

Granth Sahib

The Great Giver lives; no one dies. O Nanak, those who do not enshrine the Lord within their minds are deluded.

Lois Lowry

They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.

Juliette G. Low

The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker.

Bryant H. McGill

Service heals the recipient and the giver.

Arianna Huffington

Be a go-giver, not a go-getter

Randy Alcorn

God is the greatest giver in the universe, He won’t let you outgive Him.

Tim Kaine

The key was disclosure, and nobody has ever raised a concern that anybody who contributed, whether a campaign contributor or a gift giver, ever got anything for it.