Humble Quotes - Page 35

• To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Heaven, Ears

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

  Wendell Berry

  Cutting, Boys, Ideas

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• I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

  Norman Borlaug

  War, Team, Fighting

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• For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

  Paula Cole

  Pain, Anger, Compassion

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• Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.

  Gail Collins

  Party, Organization, Office

  "The Taxman Cometh". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 15, 2013.

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• Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Humility

  "Library of Universal History". Book by Israel Smith Clare, p. 539, 1899.

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• But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

  Ted Demme

  Marijuana, Drug, Opinion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

  Georges Duhamel

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Together

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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• Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.

  Zac Efron

  Hate, People, Guy

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• Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Heart, Creative

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• I'm humble enough to wait and just chill. I'm having fun just working with these good people, man.

  Mike Epps

  Fun, Men, People

  "An Interview with Mike Epps". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 19, 2003.

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• The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Sympathy, Kindness, Inspiration

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• Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

  Michael J. Fox

  Running, Elements, Way

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

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• Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path.’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Order, Two

  "Pope Francis: We Need You in Washington, D.C." by Jim Wallis, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2013.

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• Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

  Thomas Fuller

  Humility, Pride, Cloaks

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• In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

  Galileo Galilei

  Truth, Inspiration, Independent

  "Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men". Book by François Arago, as translated by Baden Powell, Robert Grant, and William Fairbairn, p. 365, 1859.

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• I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Humility, Pride

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.180, Vintage

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• Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

  William E. Gladstone

  God, Home, Eye

  1879 Speech at Edinburgh Foresters' Hall, during the Midlothian Campaign, 26 Nov.

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• What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

  Augustus Hare

  Heart, Hypocrite, Sound

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• Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.

  Ben Harper

  Guy, Arrogant, May

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• I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

  George Hickenlooper

  Humility, Keys, Belief

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.

  John Hodgman

  Personality, Degrees, Legacy

  Intwrview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

  Langston Hughes

  Sweet, Mind, Literature

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.199, University of Missouri Press

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• Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

  Janis Ian

  Song, Artist, Hard Times

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• There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

  Washington Irving

  Fear, Real, Character

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.95, Penguin

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