Humility Funny Quotes & Sayings

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers. — Confucius

With a song, it only takes a couple of minutes to go back to the beginning and try it again to see if it works. The novel freaks me out because, what if you get into the eighth chapter and think, 'Let's go to the top and see if this works again? It's going to take me three weeks.' I'm in awe of that. — Ben Folds

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died ... every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero. — Omar N. Bradley

Great treasures bring out great greed in the hearts of men and great greed has been the downfall of many nations. - from Opoponax Dreams — Genieve Dawkins

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls. — Michael Huffington

And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either! — Liz Phair

At 211 degrees you have hot water, but when it hits 212 degrees it boils. Just think of all the difference that one degree makes in your life. — 212 Degrees

But Fazire didn't do exactly what she said.
He did make her perfect.
He made her bright and funny and very, very
talented.
He made her sweet and thoughtful and very,
very caring.
He made her generous and kind and very, very
loving
He decided not to make her beautiful, at least
not at first, because she should know humility
and not grow up with conceit.
Though, she would become a beauty, a splendid
beauty beyond compare.
Just ... later. — Kristen Ashley

Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility. — Bill Dedman

I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is. — Julie Delpy

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society. — Irving Kristol

Evidently, a given object took no particular amount of time to draw; instead the artist took the time, or didn't take it, at pleasure. And,similarly, things themselves possessed no fixed and intrinsic amount of interest; instead things were interesting as long as you had attention to give them. How long does it take to draw a baseball mitt? As much time as you care to give it. Not an infinite amount of time, but more time than you first imagined. For many days, so long as you want to keep drawing that mitt, and studying that mitt, there will always be a new and finer layer of distinctions to draw out and lay in. Your attention discovers - seems thereby to produce - an array of interesting features in any object, like a lamp. — Annie Dillard

Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects. — Steve McConnell

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing. — Criss Jami

Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning. — Criss Jami

Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate. — David A. Bednar