Dawn Steel Quotes

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.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

Stuff doesn't matter - boats, cars, fancy things don't matter. What matters, what will matter to me, is the love of the people around me, and did I take a chance? Did I seize an opportunity to do something for people with the talents that I was lucky enough to be given? Did I make a difference in the lives of people who needed me?

If I want to leave one thing here after I'm gone, it would be an incredible sense of humility.

I've changed for the better. I'm much more selfless and humble and you're reminded about what life's really about. You love your kid so much that you just want to be a brilliant role model for them. It cleans up your act a bit.

But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

I hope people remember me for the kind of person that I am, not because of what I do.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

Live a life of grace. You'll be a better person for it, and so will your children.

I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I don't want to leave any darkness behind me.

I'm just a regular mother who's trying to save lives and be the best human being I can be.

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers.

I don't want my dad to say, 'My daughter is an actress on a TV show.' I want him to say, 'My daughter cares about people.' I would love to know that I'm a role model in Hollywood.

Let no rank puff up anyone; for faith and love are paramount - the greatest blessings in the world.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

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.

I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!

I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.