Famous Quotes & Sayings

By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

J. C. Watts

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

J. C. Ryle

All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

J. C. Ryle

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

J. C. Ryle

The surest mark of true conversion is humility.

J. C. Ryle

We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

J. C. Ryle

‎"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle

J. C. Ryle

Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is so likely to keep a person out of heaven, and prevent them from seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something we shall never be saved. Let us pray for and cultivate humility; let us seek to know ourselves correctly, and to find out our place in the sight of a holy God.

A man who is truly humble is not troubled when he is wronged and he says nothing to justify himself against the injustice, but he accepts slander as truth; he does not attempt to persuade men that he is calumniated, but he begs forgiveness.

If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble, he will not receive a reward for his labor. Recompense is given, not for labor, but for humility.

Humility collects the soul into a single point by the power of silence. A truly humble man has no desire to be known or admired by others, but wishes to plunge from himself into himself, to become nothing, as if he had never been born. When he is completely hidden to himself in himself, he is completely with God

Isaac Watts

When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.

Irving Babbitt

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

Irving Babbitt

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Irving Babbitt

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

He's up to having a life like a normal human being.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Human beings, as species, have no more value than slugs.

Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.

Max von Sydow

Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not.

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

Bob Hill

He's a pretty competitive human being and he's got a lot of pride. I talk to them about personal and professional pride a lot, and he's got a lot of that.

He's a human being. It could have been avoided.

Mike McCurry

He's a human being and he has human reaction when he reads stuff like that, sure." ()

Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Humility has the toughest hide.

Franklin Pierce

But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the rash counsels of human passion are rejected. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

Franklin Pierce

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

Frantz Fanon

I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infinity. I was made to give and they prescribe for me the humility of the cripple.

Franz Grillparzer

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.