Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Wolcott

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

Jason Calacanis

You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.

Abraham Lincoln

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness...

Dwight L. Moody

The law stops every man's mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.

Annie Proulx

No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.

Anne Bronte

Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.

Andy Pettitte

I'm not a negative-minded person. But maybe to keep me humble, I look more at my bad games in big situations than good ones.

Robert Herrick

Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.

Rick Pitino

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.

Ben Nicholson

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

Baltasar Gracian

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

Desiderius Erasmus

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

Brigham Young

There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Charles Spurgeon

O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to Enter Heaven!

Charles Spurgeon

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Irish Sayings

There is not a tree in heaven higher than the tree of patience

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother

Bode Miller

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

Anzia Yezierska

Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

Rider Strong

I hope to always be doing some low budget things.

John Milton

Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

John Wilmot

Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.

Jack Markell

My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

Tyler Perry

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

Hector Elizondo

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.