Humble Quote by James M. Barrie Download Open image “The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.” — James M. Barrie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humble Love Praise Vain
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Blessed are those who have learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds? — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Because you see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up!… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been… — James A. Garfield Copy Share
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and… — Alice Sebold Copy Share
Me, my niggas and some Madonna hoes that look just like virgins but trust they down to go. — Drake Copy Share Image
I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“Humble yourself before the Lord and he will lift you high. People who are gentle, humble and able always have a great ending no… — israelmore ayivor Copy Share Image
We have to be humble and respect our opponents who are stronger than us. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
