Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Rajneesh

To laugh at others is egoistic; to laugh at oneself is very humble. Learn to laugh at yourself - about your seriousness and things like that. You can get serious about seriousness. Then instead of one, you have created two diseases. Then you can get serious about that also, and you can go on and on. There is no end to it; it can go on AD NAUSEAM.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay a certain renunciation of Life, but in just this renunciation lay his triumph, for Life entered into his work.

Michelle Obama

We're [President Barack Obama and I] clear on the fact that we have to stay humble and prayerful. We have to dig down deep to our roots. When things come together, we know some of it is Barack, some of it is us-but a lot of it has nothing to do with either of us.

Tom Hiddleston

Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't.

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.

Aung San Suu Kyi

As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.

Charles Spurgeon

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

Denis Hayes

Asbestos, EMFs, and CFCs have given us a degree of humility. When yesterday's "triumph of modern chemistry" turns out instead to be today's deadly threat to the global environment, it is legitimate to ask what else we don't know.

Brother Lawrence

I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

Ann Landers

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

Aesop

Good things come in small packages.

Abraham Maslow

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

Brandon Boyd

Put down your hollow tips and kiss your lovers lips and learn that fate is what you make of it

Ben Okri

The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.

Benito Mussolini

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

Benito Mussolini

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

Benjamin Disraeli

A person's fate is their own temper.

Brian Jacques

Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

Jane Austen

I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

Jane Austen

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

Dean Koontz

Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.