Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jill Scott

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

Jeff Gordon

I'm not a robot; I have a personality and I have emotions. I have a humorous side to me and an angry side to me.

Jean Rhys

The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

Jean Vanier

We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity

Jean de La Fontaine

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

Grimes

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

Groucho Marx

Mr.Blank's reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no one accused him of being honest.

Above all nations is humanity,

Goran Persson

We must make working life more human.

Golda Meir

Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.

Golda Meir

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

Golda Meir

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Golda Meir

One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.

Gerald Durrell

Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular eyes, frosty gold, with an expression of intense, predatory madness in them. The crooked arms, with their fringes of sharp teeth, would be raised in mock supplication to the insect world, so humble, so fervent, trembling slightly when a butterfly flew too close.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

Ignatius of Loyola

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

Ignatius of Loyola

There is no doubt that God will never be wanting to us, provided that He finds in us that humility which makes us worthy of His gifts, the desire of possessing them, and the promptitude to co-operate industriously with the graces He gives us.

Ignatius of Loyola

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

Ignatius of Loyola

If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.

Hugo Ball

No such thing as humanity without flaws.

Hosea Ballou

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.

Hosea Ballou

Humanity , in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.

Hosea Ballou

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

Horace

Humble things become the humble.

Horace

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

Guy Finley

Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this truth is our great promise, both as individuals and as a race of beings.

Gina Carano

Fighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble.

Gillian Flynn

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

Gillian Flynn

It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

Gianfranco Fini

Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore

Harold Nicolson

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Harold Pinter

When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.