Top 1200 Humble Pie Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.

If I was able to have the game I have and shoot 80% from the line, I'd probably be an arrogant person rather than a humble one. Everything happens for a reason.

Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

What you have to do is be grateful for the chances you get. I've always been very humble and never take it for granted, ever. I do the best I can possibly do.

Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.

The keys to the life of the heart lie in reflecting upon the Quran, being humble before Allah in secret, and leaving sins.

I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.

I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first people in my family to go to university.

I like to make bombueti, which is basically the South African national dish. It's basically a South African curry shepherd's pie kind of thing.

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

Quantum physics - the idea that there is more than one reality going on at the same time in the same place. We live in a concentric society, and we'll have to make our decisions, cake as pie, as pending resolve. It's really and truly - I don't know if "as" will count any longer.

It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

So, you do make a lot of sacrifices in the business, but you have to stay humble and you have to live that normal life. That's what I do now. It keeps me grounded.

The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

Whatever you build, youre building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

Being humble got me very far when I went to L.A., because it was in stark contrast to this town of people who were so cutthroat.

The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can convert to 'clean' energy sources and stimulate our economy are based on dubious environmental and economic assumptions, fantastic notions about alternative energy, and a disturbing acceptance of the tyrannies inherent in command-control economies.

I get a lot of dark scripts now. I don't wanna be stuck doing movies like American Pie. For someone my age, once you get started doing them, it's hard to get out.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

I know that this sounds grand, but I don't try to compete with other people. I like to think there's enough pie for everyone. The kind of people I'm competing with are my heroes - Woody Allen, Billy Wilder - who I know I'm going to fall short of.

I can rebound, block shots, push the ball - basically, anything you need from a guard. Off the court, I'm humble.

We come from a very humble background. A lot of my paycheck from 'Skins' went to paying the bills and getting us a new sofa.

We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.

Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.

Scandal is like McDonald's. It's cheap and it's easily accessible to the masses, and when you're going to McDonald's, you know that you can get a salad, but do you want a salad? No. You want a Big Mac and French fries with an apple pie and a sundae.

No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.

I had a very humble upbringing, earned everything I got, and learned how challenging it is in the pro wrestling business.

Doubt means you're human - congratulations! It's natural to have these feelings, and if anything makes you humble, just don't be ruled by those emotions.

I've become less angry and a little more humble by age and by experience and by going through the ups and downs of life.

We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement, . . . by forgiving those who have offended us, . . . by rendering selfless service. . . .

Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

If India breaks your heart with untold inequalities, it also surprises you with the unheralded achievements of its most humble citizens.

Anytime you want to take time off from a job that millions of brothers work so hard to get here, that's not being humble.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

In my personal belief, the big problem with climate change is getting people to understand the magnitude and scale that we're dealing with. If you buy a vehicle that gets 35 miles to the gallon, that means nothing; it's not enough. We need to make changes across society and in every piece of the energy pie.

I went to a pizzeria. The guy gave me the smallest slice possible. If the pizza was a pie chart with what would you do if you found a million dollars, he gave me the "Donate it to charity" slice. "I'd like to exchange this for the 'Keep it!'"

I think the main figure that matters to all of us, including people in the media, is: How does GDP per capita grow? And those figures have been very good. There is a huge flux both up and down, so it isn't like we're all static in status. What's important is that pie grows.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.

The U.S. diplomacy in trying to bring around small-undecided nations to support its resolution to attack Iraq has been marked by threats and blandishments. The blandishments held out are a piece of the pie of the post-war reconstruction of Iraq.

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

Tendulkar is my idol in cricket, and one thing I try to pick up from him is how he carries himself in a humble manner.

I make a mean pecan pie, and I have a great recipe for pralines - also using pecans. Pralines take a lot of patience, and patience is a must in the duck blind as well as in the kitchen. Good things come to those who wait.

Some never get started on their destiny course because they cannot humble themselves to learn, grow, and change.

Take this wealth and this fame, always stay humble, keep your family close, and do ridiculously crazy things.

A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.

Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.

Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.

World champion always say 'yes please' - never hold back when someone need humble.

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

Even the most humble role, I've always felt really wildly grateful to be getting anywhere in film business.