Humble Beginnings Quotes

• Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.

  Joyce Meyer

  Pads, Launching, Small Beginnings

  Twitter post from Jun 26, 2014

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• Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming.

  Vishen Lakhiani

  Success, Dream, Respect

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• Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

  Livy

  Humble, Greatness, Rome

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Praefatio, section 4,

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• I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.

  Paula Abdul

  Girl, Jobs, Fun

  FaceBook post by Paula Abdul from Oct 22, 2011

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• God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells.

  Vincent de Paul

  Humble, Blessing, Giving

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• I came from rather humble beginnings.

  Teresa Palmer

  Humble

  Teresa Palmer by Sarah Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Big things have small beginnings.

  Michael Fassbender

  Cinema, Bigs, Small Beginnings

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• The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.

  Laozi

  Humble, Attention, Done

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

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Beautiful, God

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• Great things have small beginnings.

  Francis Drake

  Life, Achievement, Captains

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• When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.

  Criss Jami

  Humble, Underestimate, Authenticity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.80, Criss Jami

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• I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!

  Katy Perry

  Humble, Want, Clear

  Interview with Kristen Wiig, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2012.

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• I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Humble, Past, Ashamed

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• One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

  Dave Pelzer

  Humble, Winner

  "Child abuse as entertainment" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

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• It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.

  David Maraniss

  Humble, Character, People

  Interview with Carlos J. Queirós, www.aarp.org. April 2006.

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• I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.

  Adrienne Bailon

  New York, Humble, Cities

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• He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Humble, Bless

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

  Kate Fleetwood

  Humble, Broadway, Nominations

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• In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ... I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare ... but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Attitude, Humble, Boys

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• Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.

  Chuck D

  Queens, Rap, Humble

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• We are the rags to riches story okay the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally okay, God's gonna take "Duck Dynasty" where he wants it to go okay and to the people that he wants it to go to.

  Si Robertson

  Humble, Ducks, People

  "Uncle Si Compares Sacrifice of U.S. Troops to that of Jesus Christ". Interview with Jennifer Wishon, blogs.cbn.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Me personally, I come from very, very humble beginnings - little, small town in Alabama, you know, staying at my granddaddy house. We really didn't have nothing.

  Gucci Mane

  Humble, House, Alabama

  "Gucci Mane Is Happy, Healthy - And Productive As Ever". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, Frannie Kelley, kuaf.com. December 21, 2016.

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• I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.

  Heidi Montag

  Humble, Hollywood, Pretending

  "Heidi Montag: Reality show and plastic surgery infamy like a 'lifelong sentence'", www.foxnews.com. August 3, 2012.

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• My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

  Petra Stunt

  Mom, Dad, Humble

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• Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Humble, School, Eye

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