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• You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

  LeBron James

  Men, Who I Am, Inspirational Basketball

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• You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

  LeBron James

  Games, People, Impress

  Interview With Larry King, edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

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• The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.

  David Jeremiah

  Prayer, Men, Righteous Man

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• There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

  Jack Kemp

  Motivational, Victory, Matter

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• If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

  John Maynard Keynes

  People, Would Be, Levels

  John Maynard Keynes (1952). “Essays in Persuasion”

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• No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Dresses

  William Law (2013). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life”, p.233, Courier Corporation

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• My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

  Robert E. Lee

  Christian, Civil War, Trying

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• Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

  Livy

  Greatness, Rome, Overwhelmed

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Praefatio, section 4,

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• I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Humility, People, Prophet

  Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa

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• As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Honor, Proud, Figures

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• It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.

  David Maraniss

  Character, People, Soul

  Interview with Carlos J. Queirós, www.aarp.org. April 2006.

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• Humble people ask for help.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Helping, Asks

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• I don't need to Google myself.

  Nicki Minaj

  Google, Needs

  Details.com Interview, thebeatdfw.com.

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• I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Philosophy, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.611, Stanford University Press

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• It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Children, Compassion, Looks

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• I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Country, Writing, Thinking

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• My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

  Yoko Ono

  Husband, Men, Light

  "The Murder of John Lennon", edition.cnn.com. 2006.

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• It's flattering to people who stop you and say that you've helped them and all. But, again, you know, you've got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Flattering, Knows

  "Interview With Joel and Victoria Osteen". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 22, 2006.

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• I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There's the teaching that we're supposed to be poor to show that we're humble. I don't buy that. I think we're supposed to be leaders. We're supposed to excel.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Teaching, Kids

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• At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

  Al Pacino

  Children, Careers, Rejection

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• How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

  Ron Paul

  Father, Winning, Years

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

  M. Scott Peck

  Change, Integrity, Heart

  M. Scott Peck (2015). “The People Of The Lie”, p.290, Random House

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• I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!

  Katy Perry

  Want, Humble Beginnings, Clear

  Interview with Kristen Wiig, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2012.

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• I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.

  Freida Pinto

  Essentials, Never Forget, Evolve

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  The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Ethnicity, Essence, Ideas

  "Condoleezza Rice outshines Paul Ryan at the Republican convention" by Ana Marie Cox, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2012.

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