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.

Wentworth Miller

I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.

Samuel Richardson

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

Samuel Richardson

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

Rudolf Steiner

Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.

Richard Dawkins

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.

Richard Dawkins

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Romeo Santos

I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

Willie Dixon

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

Tullian Tchividjian

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

Sara Gruen

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

Vivian Stanshall

Fear is the root of all courage

Vincent Van Gogh

Drawing is the root of everything.

Wallace Stegner

Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly

Kelly Hu

Being Asian where you're supposed to be more quiet and softer and I was always getting reprimanded for laughing to loud or speaking to loudly.

Ronnie Barker

It's better to make people laugh than cry.

Romeo Dallaire

There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had been killed. I turned into a worse workaholic than I had already been by trying to work myself into the ground.

Tyler Perry

I want to be remembered as a guy who inspired, encouraged and made people laugh.

Willie Aames

I lived to make Scott Baio laugh.

William Saroyan

I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

Whitney Cummings

I have so much to be thankful for. I work with the most amazing people, get to make people laugh for a living and have the most amazing friends. But, I am mostly thankful for Spanx.

Saoirse Ronan

When I was younger, I would mess about and have a laugh with everyone. I was doing Atonement when I was about 12, and as we went to do this very serious scene, the director Joe [Wright] came up to me ... I'd been giggling right up to the beginning of the take. And he came up to me and said, "Okay, you need to be serious now." I completely idolized him.

Samuel Pepys

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.