Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andie MacDowell

I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.

Alphonsus Liguori

But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.

Alphonsus Liguori

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

Alphonsus Liguori

You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.

Chuck Palahniuk

If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.

Chubby Checker

When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

Christopher Morley

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Christopher Moore

This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do.

Anselm of Canterbury

Disasters teach us humility.

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

I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.

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.

Ann Veneman

Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world a better place. Everyday Ambassador is a refreshing approach which encourages collaborative work with focus, empathy, humility and patience to better affect positive change in communities throughout the world.

Andrew Carnegie

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

Amy Carmichael

If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Anna Kendrick

Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

Amy Chua

Be modest, be humble, be simple,

Amy Chua

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

Anne Sexton

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

Anne Rice

I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless.

Andrew Sullivan

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

Clayton Christensen

What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

D. J. MacHale

You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.

D. A. Carson

If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.

D. A. Carson

That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

D. H. Lawrence

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

D. H. Lawrence

We are so conceited and so unproud.

D. H. Lawrence

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

Curly Howard

I tried to think but nothing happened!

Clarence Darrow

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Clarence Darrow

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

Daniel Day-Lewis

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.