Humble Quotes - page 4

There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals. (Ali)
Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden? View quote
Mario Vargas Llosa
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? View quote
Carl Sagan
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn, The humble sheep a threat'ning horn: While the Lily white shall in love delight, Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. View quote
William Blake
A man may be humble through vainglory. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse I will try to benefit too; and when I feel it my duty to speak an unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, though it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my readers immediate pleasure as well as my own. View quote
Anne Brontë
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. View quote
John W. Gardner
When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother. View quote
Jean Ingelow
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. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity. (Louis Farrakhan)
There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat. View quote
Conor McGregor
The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric. View quote
Peter Greenaway
This cause will roll on in majesty and power to fill the earth. Doors now closed to the preaching of the gospel will be opened. The Almighty, if necessary, may have to shake the nations to humble them and cause them to listen to the servants of the living God. Whatever is needed will come to pass.”. View quote
Gordon B. Hinckley
We must never forget our responsibilities as politicians to our country and its citizens. We must always remain humble before our people. View quote
Angela Merkel
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh, but, instead, we must be simple, humble and pure. View quote
Francis of Assisi
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up. View quote
Max Schmeling
I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, 'I'm humble,' you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard. (Mike Tyson)
Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands. View quote
Nelson Mandela
In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity. View quote
Aldous Huxley
I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre