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.

Trevor Nunn

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

Vance Havner

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

Robert Wagner

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

Robert M. Gates

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.

Sarah MacLean

You cheated!” He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for that accusation.” “And I assure you, my lord, that I would ride forth victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.” “Are you quoting the Bible to me?” “Indeed,” she said primly, the portrait of piousness. “While gambling.” “What better location to attempt to reform one such as you?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

Eric Steinbach

He wants us to come out showing a lot of energy, play hard, no mental mistakes.

Grant Heslov

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

Chris Phillips

He's a big part of our team, not to mention that I'll have to play with a different guy.

Malik Rose

He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen.

Sheldon Brown

He seems to be doing better than I did with it, and I thought I did pretty well, ... His mental toughness is second to none, and that's what'll get him over the hump.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Yoandy Garlobo

We're prepared for this, physically and mentally .

Trevor Doughty

We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.

Stephanie Courtney

I was a switchboard operator on the first season of 'Mad Men.' I was the oldest and bitterest.

Randy Carter

He kept gambling even though he didn't need to. But he got that one.

Richard Whately

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

William J. Clinton

She got to go to heaven four days early.

Richard Roeper

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

Wilson Mizner

Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something.

Wilson Mizner

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

Will Rogers

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Will Rogers

Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.

W. C. Fields

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.