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Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
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We have to stop and be humble enough to understand
that there is something called mystery.
- Paulo Coelho
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau
Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty.
When I am honest I never feel stupid.
And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
- Hugh Prather
Plenty of people wish to become devout,
but no one wishes to be humble.
- Joseph Addison
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble
places where other people see nothing.
- Camille Pissarro
A man's pride shall bring him low,
but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.
- Proverbs 29:23
Study the best and highest things that are;
but of yourself humble thoughts retain.
- Joe Davis
Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor
makes you more human, more humble.
The sense of humor - according to me -
is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
- Osho
My religion consists of a humble admiration
of the illimitable superior spirit
who reveals himself in the slight details we are able
to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as
a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy
because it is an exalted activity will have neither
good plumbing nor good philosophy;
neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
- John W. Gardner
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain,
egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous;
on the contrary it makes them,
for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
- George Byron
I just want to be humble at all times.
- Mike Tyson
My chief concern is to try to be an humble,
earnest Christian.
- Robert E. Lee
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
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek;
they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
- Samuel Butler
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves!
Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
- Augustus Hare
There is a kind of victory in good work,
no matter how humble.
- Jack Kemp
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand
is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
- Galileo Galilei
I, sir, I just like to work.
I'm humble.
- Bruce McCulloch
If we remain humble and hungry, we can win.
- Dave Allison
The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age,
but the idea is that you will never slack on the music
and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.
- Joshua Homme
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride
and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
- Blaise Pascal
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had
known what was hidden within him,
he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
- Khalil Gibran
For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort,
which is this, viz.
that gout, unlike any other disease,
kills more rich men than poor,
more wise men than simple.
- Thomas Sydenham
I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with
what I have been able to accomplish and what I have
and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.
- Stephen Dorff
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth
may not perhaps be entirely with us.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.
- Jefferson Davis
Be modest, humble, simple.
Control your anger.
- Abraham Cahan
The correct description is that we try every day to
become more humble when we talk about divinity,
we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.
- John Templeton
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
Stay humble.
Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
- Jack Lemmon
Well I think they broke the mould when they made me
and being humble is one of my great assets.
- Larry Hagman
If we really love and cherish Taiwan,
we should hold our hands in unity to protect our country
and our democratic values with the most humble and tolerant hearts.
- Chen Shui-bian
Born poor, but of honored and humble people,
I am particularly proud to die poor.
- Pope John XXIII
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain,
but more humble.
- James M. Barrie
I do not think that music keeps evolving.
It evolved through Bach; since then,
in my humble opinion,
all the innovations added nothing.
- Gordon Getty
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much;
wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
- William Cowper
Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism.
Yet he is the one we have been waiting for.
That is humble?
- Evan Sayet
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements,
where all are good who are not criminal and all are
wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
- Frank Moore Colby
Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.
- Giorgio Morandi
The position of the artist if humble.
He is essentially a channel.
- Piet Mondrian
The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
- Phaedrus
Whoever loves becomes humble.
Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
- Sigmund Freud
The marathon can humble you.
- Bill Rodgers
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity,
with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of
a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks:
there's another dog.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Don't be humble...
you're not that great.
- Golda Meir
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble,
and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
- Langston Hughes
You have to be humble when you're dealing with God.
- Jill Scott
I'm humble enough to wait and just chill.
I'm having fun just working with these good people,
man.
- Mike Epps
Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
- Lajos Kossuth
You have to know when to be arrogant.
You have to when to be humble.
You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
- Talib Kweli
I try to become more humble and more myself with every year.
There was a while when I got famous where I was so
confused and my head was spinning.
- Mira Sorvino
Sin recognized but that may keep us humble,
But oh, it keeps us nasty.
- Margaret Smith
I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl.
It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.
- Paula Abdul
But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
- William Gurnall
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
- Muhammad Ali
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place,
use a humble pen.
- Paul Simon
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it
is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
- Titus Livius
I've never had a humble opinion.
If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
- Joan Baez
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
Just the fact that I'm in the game is great.
I'm just blessed to be working.
I got a plan, but I'm humble and I try to be humble.
- Mike Epps
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that
never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
- Washington Irving
I think we were always humble.
- Steve Brown
To God be humble, to thy friend be kind,
and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow;
His chance tonight,
it maybe thine tomorrow.
- William Dunbar
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