William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.

Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility.

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me.

I'm not an ambitious person. I'm very content, and I have no pending dreams. God has given me so much, and if there's one thing I really want to do, it's to serve the people.

Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

I think we were always humble.

I just want to be humble at all times.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

There's always going to be somebody worse off than me.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

Being humble matters.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Work at being a humble person.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.