Jermaine Fowler Quotes

Humility is truth.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

Gerald Ford brought to the political arena no demons, no hidden agenda, no hit list or acts of vengeance. He knew who he was, and he didn't require consultants or gurus to change him.

I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.

I just want to be more willing to listen to many people and be cautious about what I'm doing.

As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

One of the things I think we're learning to do as the twelfth insight emerges is to be discerning without being judgmental, because condemning someone certainly feels like a comic event that brings other things back on you.

You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in 'The Full Monty' or Aron Ralston.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

I'm the straight-talking woman in your life who is going to be really honest with you, but come from a place of love. I'm not talking down to you; I do this from my heart.

It's wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don't care about style or money.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.