When you have a crisis, the crisis itself becomes one of your biggest asset if that crisis is bad enough. Everyone get very modest and humble and listens. If you need do rough things, you do rough things.
Carl-Henric Svanberg
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Kahlil Gibran
Pretty is cool, but it`s not really about looks for me. It`s more about personality. I like a girl with a good sense of humor, who`s humble and sensitive. - On who he would date.
Justin Timberlake
[on Kirk Douglas] We both came from, sort of, well, shall we say, humble beginnings. We were both young, brash, cocky, arrogant. We knew everything, were highly opinionated. We were invincible. Nobody liked us.
Burt Lancaster
[on what keeps him humble] You know, I telephoned my grandparents the other day, and my grandfather said to me, "We saw your movie." "Which one?" I said, and he shouted, "Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn`t like?" I thought that was just class...
Brad Pitt
If you`re smart, you`ll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there`ll always be somebody who`s never read a book who`ll know twice what you know.
David Duchovny
[on Spencer Tracy] The guy`s good. There`s nobody in the business who can touch him, and you`re a fool to try. And the bastard knows it, so don`t fall for that humble stuff!
Clark Gable
You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.
Alan Graf Jr
You know, first of all, I have the highest regard for Canada and the Canadians, just in general; they are very gracious people and very humble.
Anthony Hall
You have to demand things and believe you`re worth more. And once you do demand them, you`re usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today`s players, on the other hand, have a sense of enti...
Andres Araya
Who cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the feeling of a humble and grateful heart.
Oliver Sacks
Wherefore your poor subjects` most humble petition to your highness is, that the laws touching such malefactors may be put in due execution.
Alison Parken
The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian
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