Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

Thomas Carlyle

What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.

Thomas Carlyle

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

Thomas Carlyle

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Thomas Carlyle

I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

Thomas Carlyle

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Tony Dungy

False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.

Tony Dungy

We are all important, but we are not indispensable.

Steven Erikson

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558

Steve Martin

Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.

Steve Martin

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

Steve Burns

The best traders I know are also the most humble people I know, coincidence? Or has the market taught them some very valuable lessons?

Steve Buscemi

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

Steve Buscemi

I can't relate to 99% of humanity.

Ronald Reagan

This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.

Ronald Reagan

I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.

Ronald Reagan

[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

Ronald Reagan

Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.

Ronald Reagan

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

Ron Paul

Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

Sam Levenson

The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don't have to stay in that home of your own.

Rumi

Humble yourself, you’ll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you.

Rumi

Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.

Rumi

The whole universe is contained within a single human being - you.

Susan Cain

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

Stuart Wilde

The function of abundance is not to possess things but to use them and gather experiences.

Stuart Wilde

The secret to success is to subjugate your ego and serve others.

Sonny Terry

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

Steve Irwin

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

Steve Jobs

Combine science and humanities.

Stephen Graham Jones

The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble.

Sri Aurobindo

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

Sri Chinmoy

Spirituality is the science that teaches us how to achieve peace of mind and supreme satisfaction. Right now we are hankering after many, many things, but nothing we get satisfies us. Spirituality tells us that satisfaction can be found only if we lead a good and divine life-a life of simplicity, purity and humility.