Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Cardozo

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

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.

Charles Darwin

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

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.

Brother Lawrence

Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.

Mike Massucci

During our timeout with :06 left, Travis told me he wanted the ball. It wasn't said with arrogance. It was just an inner-confidence.

Woody Allen

I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me

Joe Gill

Both of them were very classy when they played here - never any baloney, never any arrogance. They just came to play. You couldn't get them out, but you appreciated how they played.

Javad Zarif

We are used to this type of clich? statements by the United States, and also the arrogance that is associated with the statement,

B. R. Hayden

There's such an arrogance to savers sometimes. And I'm a saver, so I can say that.

T. D. Jakes

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

Plautus

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Mason Cooley

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

Aristotle

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Romain Rolland

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

John Milton

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

Marilynne Robinson

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

John Stuart Mill

It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.

John Ruskin

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

Gary Zukav

As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.

Euripides

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.