Top 100 A Humble Quotes
#1. A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance.
David Wilkerson
#2. [I am a humble adherent of] ... Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.
Ernest Gellner
#3. It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
Ellen Glasgow
#5. Loving someone deeply brings you closer to God. It is a humble admission of weakness, through which God's strength is made perfect.
Lillian Katungwa
#6. The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. Indeed, that is the nature of crowds: the mob is either a humble slave or a cruel aster. As for the middle way of liberty, the mob can neither take it nor keep it with any respect for moderation or law.
Livy
#8. Because, I'm a guy, and we have to measure everything, I can assure you I am a humble ten inches or so, not twenty-four. Yes, I realize I'm on the large side, I also know while it may be a snug fit," his voice dropped to a wicked, suggestive growl, "every slow, thick inch WILL fit.
T. Hammond
#9. 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
#10. I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.
John Woolman
#11. One way or other, God will give redress to the injured, who in a humble silence commit their cause to him;
Matthew Henry
#12. Discipline and diligence are up there on the list, but one of the most important qualities of many really successful people is humility. If you have a degree of humility about you, you have the ability to take advice, to be coachable, teachable. A humble person never stops learning.
Todd Blackledge
#13. A smile is a humble hidden treasure everyman has been endowed with that does not reveal itself until it is called for.
Seyi Ayoola
#14. A humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow.
Abhijit Naskar
#15. Use the technology which the engineer as developed, but use it with a humble and questioning spirit. Never allow technology to be your master, and never use it to gain mastery over others.
Marina Lewycka
#16. There is no greater Church calling than that of a home teacher. There is no greater Church service rendered to our Father in Heaven's children than the service rendered by a humble, dedicated, committed home teacher.
Ezra Taft Benson
#17. [On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners ...
Ethel Smyth
#18. A skillful soldier is not violent, an able fighter does not rage, a mighty conqueror does not give battle, a great commander is a humble man
Lao-Tzu
#19. The incredibly powerful and enriching lifestyle of seeking beauty is a humble service of love and healing.
Bryant McGill
#20. I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.
Djuna Barnes
#21. If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.
Soren Kierkegaard
#22. I think it's important to come from a humble place.
Molly Sims
#23. As you accept the responsibility to seek after truth with an open mind and a humble heart, you will become more tolerant of others, more open to listen, more prepared to understand, more inclined to build up instead of tearing down and you will be more willing to go where God wants you to go.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#24. The presence and the power of the glorified Christ will come to them that are of a humble spirit.
Andrew Murray
#25. Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.
Thomas Adams
#26. I love Pittsburgh because it's a humble city. It's really grounded in its rich history and culture.
Kyle Abraham
#29. "A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle
J.C. Ryle
#30. 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
#31. I'm never going to forget Wellston. It's where I grew up. It's my heart and my pride. The people are great here. I'm going to give back. I was born and raised here. I'm a humble person. The community knows that. I want to build it back to how it was and be a happier place than it was.
Ben McLemore
#32. So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts] contains the power to save your souls. James 1:21
Joyce Meyer
#33. Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#34. Like all philosophers, I am an observer of the human condition. I have found through my observations that an intelligent man and a humble man are rarely the same person.
Jao-long from my book Aztec Legend Lord of the Jaguars.
B.E. Crittenden
#35. A humble man rises to great heights and an arrogant man falls deep into the pit he tries to dig for others.
Amit Abraham
#36. I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.
Heber J. Grant
#37. Almost all religions from Buddhism to Islam feature either a humble prophet or a prince who comes to identify with the poor, but what is this if not populism? It is hardly a surprise if religions choose to address themselves first to the majority who are poor and bewildered and uneducated.
Christopher Hitchens
#38. The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
Ezra Taft Benson
#39. We normally know Jesus as a humble, loving servant, which He is. But Revelations gives us the bigger picture of who Jesus is, in His glory.
Jud Wilhite
#40. When in life you are destined great, but fated to a humble background, it always gets really worse before it gets really better.
Darmie Orem
#41. A humble, bootstrappy patriot, Knox wooed, then married Lucy Flucker, the highbrow daughter of the Loyalist governor of the province of Massachusetts.
Sarah Vowell
#42. Have a humble heart & an open-mind and you'll soon be given glimpses beyond the veil of your beliefs and understandings... growing wiser, and believing deeper.
Russell Kyle
#43. A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one's helplessness and let our holy and almighty God care for us, just as an infant surrenders himself to his mother's care.
Ole Hallesby
#44. I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.
Jeff Goldblum
#45. I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#46. Grief is a humble angel who leaves you with strong, clear thoughts and a sense of your own depth. Depression is a demon who leaves you appalled.
Andrew Solomon
#47. Jesus had a humble heart. If He abides in us, pride will never dominate our lives.
Billy Graham
#49. The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities ...
B.C. Forbes
#50. Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught ... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.
Matthew Henry
#51. The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with him; yea, will not let him go without a blessing ... They are only a few noble-spirited souls, who dare take heaven by force, that are fit for this calling.
William Gurnall
#52. A humble person is more likely to be self confident ... a person with real humility knows how much they are loved.
Cornelius Plantinga
#53. I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
Nelson Mandela
#54. God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and center of our souls.
Brother Lawrence
#55. Think like a maverick, Fight like a gladiator, Love with a humble heart and Die for a cause worth dying for ... Be a "game changer" ... The basic tenets of my life philosophy.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#56. A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.
Thomas Merton
#57. Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
Pindar
#58. What is most needed for learning is a humble mind.
Confucius
#59. There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
Park Chan-wook
#60. Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#61. A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
Thomas A Kempis
#62. A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.
Stephen Charnock
#63. A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.
Mark The Evangelist
#64. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.
Gerald R. Ford
#65. Happiness isn't complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#69. 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
#70. Life never ceases having a meaning for a humble person. The freedom of choice, the sovereignty that we hold over our own souls, enables a person to discover the meaning of his or her own life every day, even in suffering or death.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#71. I think one of the most important American films is 'Jackie Brown,' which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the '90s.
Arnaud Desplechin
#72. Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
Epictetus
#73. I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.
Jimmy Carter
#74. I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.
Reginald Farrer
#75. You don't lose anythings by being humble. A humble person will win the heart of a King.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#76. Real love is a humble receptivity of a silent heart that is prepared to melt and merge ...
Banani Ray
#77. All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.
Stephen Jay Gould
#78. I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.
Tom Kristensen
#80. Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others
Richard Baxter
#81. If one assumes a humble attitude, one's own good qualities will increase. Whereas if one is proud, one will become jealous of others, one will look down on others, and due to that there will be unhappiness in society.
Dalai Lama
#82. Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowing into my ears.' But the humble, common tears had relieved me[ ... ]
Barbara Comyns
#83. People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create anything ... they just receive what is there for them with a humble and grateful heart.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#84. Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.
Thomas A Kempis
#86. I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.
Marion Barry
#87. Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come - even if it came in a - living room - or to someone - with a humble living.
Stefan Hell
#89. Nevertheless, some people are afraid to pray. They hear others speak beautiful prayers and become self-conscious. God, however, cares less about beautiful words than a humble heart.
Ken Golden
#90. A humble woman gets her strength from God and gives Him all the glory when something good happens
Latorria Freeman
#91. Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God's grace.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#93. Benefit. A humble heart is a great help towards profitably hearing the gospel. The engrafted soul saving word is not received except with meekness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#94. Selflessness is humility ... humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free.
Jeff Wilson
#95. The basis of all scientific work is the conviction that the world is an ordered and comprehensive entity, which is a religious sentiment. My religious feeling is a humble amazement at the order revealed in the small patch of reality to which our feeble intelligence is equal.
Albert Einstein
#96. It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.
Hilary Swank
#97. I'd compare myself to Zinedine Zidane ... a humble guy who just happened to be the best
Nicolas Anelka
#98. all of you, u have unity of mind, sympathy, v brotherly love, w a tender heart, and x a humble mind. 9 y Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, z bless, for a to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
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