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• The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

  Nelson Mandela

  Struggle, Opportunity, Names

  Nelson Mandela (1990). “Nelson Mandela, symbol of resistance and hope for a free South Africa: selected speeches since his release”

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• I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I'm not really good with submission, so that's the part of marriage and relationships that I've found very hard to deal with.

  Tichina Arnold

  Sometimes, Submission, Found

  "Exclusive: Tichina Arnold On Her Past Love Mistakes and Preparing to Remarry". Interview with Charli Penn, www.essence.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Fire Of Love, Christ, You Again

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• I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain," with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit with humble but fearless confidence my own fate and the future destinies of my country.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Fate, Destiny

  John Quincy Adams, William Harwood Peden (1946). “The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams”

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• We must observe also, that among the heathen the names of poor men are more likely to be known than of rich. Now our Lord mentions the name of the poor, but not the name of the rich, because God knows and approves the humble, but not the proud.

  Pope Gregory I

  Men, Names, Proud

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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, Cities, Spoons

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• Once you get cocky that's when you start to, A, turn into an asshole to everybody and, B, make mistakes because you stop listening to people or they stop telling you because you're a cocky asshole. So I'm going to try and eat my humble pie every morning for breakfast and just hope that it turns out OK.

  Timothy Miller

  Morning, Mistake, Cocky

  Source: screenrant.com

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• You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the internet industry it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.

  Jason Calacanis

  Innovation, Vision, Littles

  "Calacanis calls time on the internet 'me-toos'". Interview with Zoe Margolis, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2008.

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• Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are fighting for ideals. We are fighting for oil and tin and rubber and markets, and as long as we insist on a standard of life that is so high above all the rest of the world, we're going to have to pay for our standard of living with a lot of blood. I think we ought to re-examine the fact that Jesus was a pauper, and we should be committing ourselves to a very humble, simple way of life.

  Clarence Jordan

  Jesus, War, Fighting

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• A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.

  J. C. Ryle

  Giving Up, Two, Prejudice

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.455, Editora Dracaena

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• Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo. The Book of Woe is a profound, and profoundly entertaining, riff on malady, power, and truth. This book is for those of us (i.e. all of us) who've ever wondered what it means, and what's at stake, when we try to distinguish the suffering of the ill from the suffering of the human.

  Gideon Lewis-Kraus

  Book, Mean, Thoughtful

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• Cars are necessary, but take a more humble one. Think of how many children die of hunger and dedicate the savings to them.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Thinking, Car

  "Austere Example: Pope's Message at Odds with Bishops' Lifestyle" by Peter Wensierski and Spiegel, abcnews.go.com. September 29, 2013.

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• Mary’s life shows that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are the most humble.

  Pope Francis

  Deeds, Mary, Accomplish

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• A gazelle runs faster than us; cockroaches are remarkably tolerant of radiation; every being has some superiority; in remembering this, be very humble!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Running, Cockroaches, Gazelles

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• Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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• Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wind, Sailing, Gold

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• Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Greatness, World, Whole

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• I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their success quickly. Most people, it takes many many years of incredible hard work, and many periods of severe poverty, and it kind of makes it all the better.

  Patrick Grant

  Running, Hard Work, Thinking

  "Recognize Craftsmanship". Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com. October 8, 2013.

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• When you travel you realize how small you are. You need to be humble. You can't be a big, brash American. You think you have problems. You leave the States and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you. They have nothing to eat, they have no water, they have no shelter, they have a terrible government. So you realize we complain about the government, we complain about food, whatever it is, and go somewhere else and you think, "Now I realize," you say, "Why people want to come to America."

  Paul Theroux

  Thinking, America, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Walking through the Capitol Building gives you a sense of how it all began here. It was reassuring to see how restrained it was. It was very humble in a way.

  Greg Lake

  Giving, Way, Reassuring

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• Do you cherish your humble and silky life?

  Mary Oliver

  Cherish, Heaviness, Pink Flower

  Mary Oliver (2013). “New and Selected Poems, Volume One”, p.32, Beacon Press

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• No man is disbeliever! Everyone is believer! All men believe in something! If a man does not believe in God, He is a believer too, because he simply believes that God does not exist! Don't give yourself airs just because you believe in something since everyman believes in something! Always be humble!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Believe, Men, Air

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• Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Victory, Age, Killing

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• On the road to your target, move cleverly and silently; when you reached your target, be humble and silent!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, Target, Silent

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• Good work is not done by 'humble' men

  G. H. Hardy

  Men, Done, Good Work

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.66, Cambridge University Press

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