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.

Charles Spurgeon

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

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.

Tariq Ramadan

Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.

T. S. Eliot

Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

Suzy Kassem

A good man will never harm or oppress another. A good man will share his last morsel of food with others in need, and die of hunger when he no longer has any food -- instead of cheat or steal from others to survive. Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

Simone Weil

There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.

Arnold Toynbee

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

Brigid Brophy

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

Edmund Burke

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Dalai Lama

If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.

Desmond Tutu

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Deepak Chopra

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

Thomas Sankara

The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.

Rumi

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Fair and softly goes far.

Rumi

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Jasper Carrott

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be an unhappy number,

Chris Richards

I'm unhappy because we just lost. We thought we had it in our hands, but we just didn't execute.

Pat Conroy

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

Harlan Coben

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

Byron Katie

I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.