Humble Quotes - Page 16

• Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Mind, Religion

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.231

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• The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

  Jean Rhys

  Humility, Virtue, Courses

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• Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

  Margaret Mead

  Emergencies, Napkins, Talent

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• It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Apology, Example, Way

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.

  Barbara Holland

  Self, Ego, Solitude

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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• Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings,--a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.

  Hannah More

  Grateful, Blessing, Reflection

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• Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

  Hannah More

  Sleep, Pride, Men

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.753

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• The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all.

  Patricia Hampl

  Hands, Poetry, Fit

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• To every class we have a school assign'd,
  Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind:
  Yet one there is, that small regard to rule
  Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school;
  That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits,
  And awes some thirty infants as she knits;
  Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay
  Some trifling price for freedom through the day.
  At this good matron's hut the children meet,
  Who thus becomes the mother of the street.

  George Crabbe

  Mother, Children, School

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author”, p.239

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• When our thoughts are born,
  Though they be good and humble, one should mind
  How they are reared, or some will go astray
  And shame their mother.

  Jean Ingelow

  Mother, Mind, Shame

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.192

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• I've always been humble and this even humbled me even more to definitely get a second chance at my career. There are still chapters I'm writing in this legacy.

  Darrelle Revis

  Writing, Second Chance, Careers

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• Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Islands, Turkeys

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.

  Hosea Ballou

  Prayer, Generations, Use

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• It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Order, Two

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.11, Storey Publishing

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• Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Religious, Humility, Essence

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• Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Say Anything, Would Be, Modesty

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• It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  God, Wise, Men

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• ... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Religious, Writing, Example

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

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• By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.

  Horace Bushnell

  Mean, Self Confidence, Trials

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.432

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• The inward sighs of humble penitence
  Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns
  Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.

  Joanna Baillie

  Hymns, Air, Heaven

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• I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Believe, Heart, Servant Of God

  Address to the Nation Pardoning Richard M. Nixon, delivered on September 8, 1974, Washington D.C.

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• A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.

  Francis Atterbury

  People, Victory, States

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• O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,--a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won.

  Torquato Tasso

  Winning, Done, Suits

  Torquato Tasso “Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem”, Library of Alexandria

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• Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.

  Pierre Charron

  Gay, Men, Two

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• Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Men, Riches, Fewer

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