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.

Wendell Berry

As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful. We have no choice then but to become its exploiters, and to lose, by consequence, our place in it. It is only when, by humility, openness, generosity, courage, we make ourselves able to relate to it on its terms that it ceases to be alien.

Wendell Berry

We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

Dianne Feinstein

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

David Mitchell

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Clive Barker

Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now.

Jerry Spinelli

His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway

Howard Carter

Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.

Alexander Woollcott

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

Ram Dass

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

Brian Belski

I think we received some clarity there. I think we are done with the Greenspan hangover.

Barry Hyman

I think we are just mired in interest-rate concerns until we get some clarity on rates.

Tori Amos

We all must develop a grounded clarity for ourselves.

Brad Smith

I'm very optimistic about the new opportunity that we now have. It finally gives us the specificity and clarity that we need to work in a constructive way.

Xtine Hanson

I just had this moment of clarity that there really could be a tool for this.

James Redfield

I had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I'm kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.

Scott Wren

The economic news has been very good, but the Fed remains somewhat of a mystery. It's the same problem that's really held us back all month and it'll continue to be a problem until we get some more clarity from the Fed.

Roger Kubarych

The fund industry lobby their own members to improve the clarity of prospectuses,

Toba Beta

The clarity of perception makes reality look as it is.