Humble Quotes

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

Faith, Happy, Successful

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa

Work, Lonely, Poor

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

Religion, Mind, Able

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden

God, Grateful, Talent

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.
Muhammad Ali

Home, Nice, Far

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthur

Strong, Enough, Brave

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis

Real, Why, Problem

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
Muhammad Ali

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Khalil Gibran

Him, Jesus, Before

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Mind, Proud, Pride

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
John Madden

Winner, Stand, Losers

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Henry David Thoreau

Work, End, Rather

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise Pascal

God, Jesus, Before

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
Nelson Mandela

Before, Here, Stand

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

Love, Speak, Narcissism

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
M. Scott Peck

Change, Good, History

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Camille Pissarro

Beautiful, Blessed, Nothing

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.
Ron Paul

Win, Year, Election

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
Hugh Prather

Stupid, Honesty, Honest

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner

Good, Society, Philosophy

Don't be humble... you're not that great.
Golda Meir

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
Paulo Coelho

Understand, Enough, Stop

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham

Success, Makes, Idea

I just want to be humble at all times.
Mike Tyson

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
Louis Farrakhan

Good, Hope, Humanity

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.
Francis Quarles

Love, God, Strength

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
Talib Kweli

Hard, Arrogant, Soft

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
Phillips Brooks

Nature, Yourself, True

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
Pope John XXIII

Die, Poor, Proud

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Another, Matter, Fact

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