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• I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.

  Andie MacDowell

  Ideas, Quiet

  "Andie MacDowell: Taking Risks, Staying Curious, Agreeing To Disagree". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 23, 2011.

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• Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Proud

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• I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.

  Debi Mazar

  Running, Path, Midnight

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone.

  Rebecca Wells

  Believe, Done, Able

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• Nothing stirs God’s heart more than a humble heart and a merciful spirit. God responds to mercy, because it is through compassion that we fully come to know Him. This is the defining quality of a true follower of Christ. We are never closer to the heart of God than when we are forgiving someone. And we are never farther from it than when we are holding a grudge.

  Nicky Cruz

  Heart, Compassion, Forgiving

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• When all of our idols are taken away, all our securities and defense mechanisms,
  we find out who we really are. We’re so little, so poor, so emptyand a shock to ourselves. But the Biblical God takes away our shame,
  and we are eventually able to present ourselves in an honest and humble form.
  Then we find out who we really are and who God is for usand it is more than enough. That is how an enslaved people became God’s people, Israel.

  Aaron Lines

  Taken, Biblical, Israel

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• I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Modesty, Virtue, Lukewarm

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 4, sc. 5, 1951.

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• The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

  Tanith Lee

  Pulpit, Priests, Teach

  Tanith Lee (1997). “The Book of the Beast”, p.25, The Overlook Press

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• Always enter like a kitten and leave like a lion. But NEVER enter like a lion and leave like a kitten. Always be humble.

  Carlson Gracie

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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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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• I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

  Wallace Stegner

  Responsibility, Men, Thinking

  Wallace Stegner, James Hepworth (1998). “Stealing Glances: Three Interviews with Wallace Stegner”

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• Staying humble has always been really important to me, and always being proud of what you're representing.

  Jordyn Wieber

  Important, Proud, Staying

  "Gymnast Jordyn Wieber on Staying Focused and Crushing on Justin Bieber". Interview with Caitlin Brown, www.self.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

  Cass Gilbert

  Soul, Genius, Birth

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• Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.

  Victoria Clark

  Guy, Deals, Happens

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• May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

  Ralph Thomas Walker

  Book, Illusions Of Grandeur, Years

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• Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Love, Christian, Eye

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• Is not our Lord as meek and humble in the Blessed Sacrament as He was during His life on earth? Is He not always the Good Shepherd, the Divine Consoler, the Changeless Friend? Happy the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, and in the Eucharist all things!

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Blessed, Holy Eucharist

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• It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Prayer, Suffering, Triumph

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• If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

  John Dewey

  Humility, Ifs

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• The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.

  Thomas Dubay

  Brother, Assuming, Wiser

  Thomas Dubay (1997). “Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment”, p.132, Ignatius Press

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• The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in their own opinions and insights. No one can admonish them successfully: not a peer, not a local superior, not even the pope himself. They know - and that is the end of the matter. Filled as they are with their own views, the arrogant lack the capacity to see another view.

  Thomas Dubay

  Views, People, Arrogant

  Thomas Dubay (1997). “Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment”, p.132, Ignatius Press

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• He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a stranger to the ways of the Saviour, for as the Saviour enjoined us: 'Learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart: and you will find rest for your souls' (Mt. 11:29). Now if a man abstains from food and drink, but becomes incensed to wrath because of evil thoughts, he is like a ship sailing the open sea with a demon for a pilot.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Heart, Men

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• Many flatter themselves and consider themselves to be good, humble, and meek, but they will discover the contrary under temptation. Do not not become despondent in temptations, then, but give all the more thanks to God that He thus brings you to what is hidden in your heart - the knowledge of yourself - and wishes you to be corrected and be saved.

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Heart, Giving, Temptation

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• I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.

  John Woolman

  Heart, Blessing, Greatness

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.35, Lulu.com

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• No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meaning Of Life, Mindfulness

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