Being Humble In Victory Quotes & Sayings

If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper. — Charles Simic

I used to think there would be a blinding flash of light someday, and then I would be wise and calm and would know how to cope with everything and my kids would rise up and call me blessed. Now I see that whatever I'm like, I'm pretty well stuck with it for life. Hell of a revelation that turned out to be. — Margaret Laurence

You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising. — John Nance Garner

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be. — George A. Sheehan

A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits. — Peter Kreeft

It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way. — David Copperfield

Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again. — E. M. Forster

Flying a good airplane doesn't require near as much attention as a motor car. — Charles Lindbergh

What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians. — William Wilberforce

Would've thought it was a closet door, but it couldn't have been, unless a half-naked chick had been hiding in there. If so, this was my kind of dorm. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

If you haven't made any mistakes lately, then obviously you haven't been trying too hard. — Mark W. Boyer

There was something so primal and hungry about the way he stared down at her..the way their bodies unconsciously strained toward one another as if nothing - not even time, not distance, not even death- could ever keep them apart. — Amanda Stevens

Being humble doesn't mean you lose; it means you have won. Give the victory to others. — Tsem Tulku

Everywhere the grain stood ripe and the hot afternoon was full of the smell of the ripe wheat, like the smell of bread baking in an oven. The breath of the wheat and the sweet clover passed him like pleasant things in a dream. — Willa Cather

Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge
desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138] — Carolyn G. Heilbrun