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.

Jonathan Swift

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Marc Morial

I think the important message today is that an ordinary person -- a quiet, humble person -- can ignite a movement,

Rachael Scoggin

Humble is tied for first place, and I think we played them a pretty quality game.

Tommy Moore

He was kind, considerate and a very humble person, but he was a lion in politics.

Wale

Riding in another drop, ain't talking Enterprise They try to see me, get diabetes from humble pie

Upton Sinclair

They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?

Ronald Reagan

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Wendell Berry

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

Mike James

I'm probably one of the must humble people you'll ever meet.

Greg Davis

I'm very humbled to be the recipient of this award.

Russell Lynes

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

Virginia Woolf

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

Wes Anderson

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.

Vinton Cerf

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.

Jorge Luis Borges

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

Jonathan Raban

The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.

Harvey Mackay

Look in the mirror every day and say, I am in charge. You might not have control over every phase of your life, but you have more control than you realize, and you are responsible for your own happiness and success.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.

Jacques Lacan

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.