Humble Quotes - Page 22

• The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.

  Wendell Berry

  Jobs, Real, Environmental

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Past, Ashamed, My Past

  257 Copy quote

• We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Be Humble, Obedient

  17 Copy quote

• Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here's the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fun, Mean, Men

  88 Copy quote

• The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone.

  Michael J. Fox

  Running, Humility, People

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it's very humble to believe that there is no man, woman or child who should live in tyranny. That people who say, well, maybe Arabs just aren't ready for democracy or maybe Africans just are going to have corrupt governments, that seems to me arrogant.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Children, Believe, Men

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• To say that people around the world deserve the same, the same life that we have in the United States, the same freedoms that we have, that seems to me, humble. I think it's humble to say that the United States, which has been given so much, should give back.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.

  Steve Martin

  Opportunity, Missing, Comedy

  "Steve Martin Interview - The Pink Panther 2". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. February 4, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

  Jack Kirby

  Artist, Editors, Caste System

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals.

  Jack Kirby

  Artist, Simple, Editors

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Travelling as extensively as I do... the take away for me has made me very humble and very sympathetic to other people's plight in the world and very desirous of being proactive in being part of a solution somehow and not part of a problem. It's made me very patient and very grateful for where I live.

  Henry Rollins

  Grateful, People, World

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you are aware that people are coming to you to receive your gift and not necessarily to you as the person, it keeps you very humble. Many people make the mistake of confusing the attraction of people to their lives as something that has to do with them as a person or a personality, and this is very dangerous and not true.

  Myles Munroe

  Mistake, People, Personality

  20 Copy quote

• I'm a real stubborn person. I'm still humble, not too cocky, but I'm big headed. I know what I wanna do and I know how I wanna do it and I know what needs to be done.

  Schoolboy Q

  Real, Cocky, Needs

  Source: www.thefader.com

  93 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mother Teresa was a hero of mine for a long time. I just like the way she took on the world from a very humble place. She has a great quote. When she was leaving her monestary to start Sisters of Charity, she had two pennies. She was asked by a head priest what she could possibly do with two pennies. She said, 'Nothing. But with two pennies and God, I can do anything'.

  Jack Canfield

  Mother, Hero, Two

  7 Copy quote

• God Himself heals the proud. This means that inner sorrows (by which pride is healed) are sent to us by God, for the proud man will not suffer anything from others. But the humble person will endure everything, and will always say, 'I deserve this.'

  Ambrose of Optina

  Christian, Mean, Pride

  11 Copy quote

• Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Truth, Dust

  5 Copy quote

• No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Country, Gratitude, Peace

  "A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time Vol. V". Book by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, 1888.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Prayer, Blessing

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1403, Jazzybee Verlag

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a really humble person and I'm a really on-the-go person. For me, it's never that serious.

  Joey Badass

  Serious, Humble Person, Persons

  Source: gothamist.com

  102 Copy quote

  Show source

• I interviewed one of the most powerful lawyers in the world and he told me, "At the time, it was the worst thing in the world not to be able to get a job at a fancy law firm, but it's the greatest thing that ever happened in my life." It was a humble acknowledgment of how forces much larger than himself shaped his career. I really wanted to bring that point home.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Jobs, Powerful, Home

  Goodreads interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mary has the authority over the angels and the blessed in heaven. As a reward for her great humility, God gave her the power and mission of assigning to saints the thrones made vacant by the apostate angels who fell away through pride. Such is the will of the almighty God who exalts the humble, that the powers of heaven, earth and hell, willingly or unwillingly, must obey the commands of the humble Virgin Mary.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Blessed, Humility

  76 Copy quote

• The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Prayer, Biblical

  33 Copy quote
• 

  If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble.

  Nelson Mandela

  Important, Want, Cooperation

  Source: profitmagazin.com

  721 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way.

  Victoria Beckham

  Thinking, Arrogant, Way

  "Victoria Beckham Drops the Posh Act". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2010.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come.

  Mark McMorris

  Stay Humble, Excited, Good Things

  39 Copy quote