Top 100 Be Humble Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Be Humble

#1. Sometimes one has to be humble enough to start at the bottom with a minimum-wage job even if you have a college degree. Once you get your foot in the door, you can prove your worth and rapidly move up the ladder. If you never get in the door, it is unlikely that you will rise to the top.

Ben Carson

#2. I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?

David Budbill

#3. 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

#4. Never give up in life. Learn to be humble, resilient, honest, wise and submissive and you'll be able to make a change better than anyone else.

Auliq Ice

#5. The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.

Alex Haley

#6. Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

Lord Byron

#7. For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.

Archie Fire Lame Deer

#8. Be humble and you will remain entire. The sages do not display themselves, therefore they shine. They do not approve themselves, therefore they are noted. They do not praise themselves, therefore they have merit. They do not glory in themselves, therefore they excel.

Laozi

#9. Leaders in the body of Christ must be humble and broken from the Lord's hand to be truly useful in His kingdom.

Greg Gordon

#10. Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

John Madden

#11. We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Paulo Coelho

#12. Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

Amy Chua

#13. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble when your perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, cause I get better looking each day.

Mac Davis

#14. Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

Mark Twain

#15. It's very easy for us to be humble when no one else is around. There is no reason for us to demonstrate our superiority, because no one challenges it.

Frederick Lenz

#16. It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

Constance Fenimore Woolson

#17. To be worthy of recognition, be humble.

Debasish Mridha

#18. If you only know one kriya, then share that. Just be humble, teach it. Every student is a teacher.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#19. Be humble in victory and gracious in defeat.

Christopher Earle

#20. Be humble to see your mistakes, courageous to admit them, and wise enough to correct them.

Amine A. Ayad

#21. Don't be humble. Your not that great.

Golda Meir

#22. I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.

John Boyega

#23. I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.

George Eliot

#24. Be confident. Be compassionate. Be intelligent. Be humble. Be generous. The universe returns to you what you put out.

Lauren Jauregui

#25. Be humble. Be yourself.

Bobby Green

#26. To create an inner peace of mind, be humble, gentle, harmonious, and kind.

Debasish Mridha

#27. Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Joseph Addison

#28. Go forward in your beliefs and teachings, educate the open-minded and be humble to the ones who aren't.

Lauren Lola

#29. I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.

Mark Viduka

#30. Sometimes you fucked up enough in life, that you had to bow to your mistakes. They won. Be humble ... move on.

Tarryn Fisher

#31. We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#32. Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.

John Piper

#33. Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad

Sivananda

#34. Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#35. Be humble, be grateful, give back, share, pay it forward, chase your dreams, go for it, and take a moment to remember where it is ALL from.

Justin Bieber

#36. It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

Muhammad Ali

#37. It would be foolish to assert that there is no power above mine. Only the attitude that I take toward it will be quite another than that of the religious age: I shall be the enemy of every higher power, while religion teaches us to make it our friend and be humble toward it.

Max Stirner

#38. Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

John Wooden

#39. Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.

Chinua Achebe

#40. Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Kanye West

#41. If men come unto me, I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.

Ezra Taft Benson

#42. You either want to be humble and enlighten the world, or you want to be appreciated and reflect the darkness in the world.

Robin Sacredfire

#43. Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.

John C. Maxwell

#44. Be humble, desire insight, squash arrogance, and be cognizance of unknown.

Pearl Zhu

#45. Borrow a child and get on welfare.
Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child,
or go to the public park with the child, and take the child
to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and
be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don't talk
back ...

Susan Griffin

#46. An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals.

Jack Kirby

#47. The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatest greatness is.

Phillip Brooks

#48. So many things
nay every real thing
is good if only it will be humble and ordinate.

C.S. Lewis

#49. Do not be fearful. Be humble and feel blessed. You are always in God's Hands.

Paul Stefaniak

#50. 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

#51. If you will be humble and ask God what to do, I promise you that he will always prepare a way for your deliverance.

Henry B. Eyring

#52. You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. A servant must be humble and obedient.

George R R Martin

#53. Be humble to those who praise you.
Be pleasant to those who honor you.
Be kind to those who cherish you.
Be good to those who love you.
Be generous to those who adore you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#54. For me, I learnt from jiu-jitsu and martial arts to be humble and to go forward in life in a positive way.

Ricardo Liborio

#55. A book is a living breathing piece of art and you are just the person it chose to channel its story. Be humble.

Lori Lesko

#56. Real spirituality is about getting the bullshit out of your life and getting real. Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can't be humble without self-love.

Bryant McGill

#57. We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

Kavita Ramdas

#58. When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

Hamza Yusuf

#59. Always asked, 'Whats the key to success?' The key is, there is no key. Be humble, hungry and always be the hardest worker in the room.

Dwayne Johnson

#60. Man is not mean to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.

Mike Tyson

#61. Be humble in this life ...

Stephen I Of Hungary

#62. Only a powerful soul can offer love. Only a powerful soul can afford to be humble. If we are weak, then we become selfish. If we are empty, we take, but if we are filled, we automatically give to all. That is our nature.

Brahma Kumaris

#63. Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.

Thomas Brooks

#64. They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

John Flavel

#65. Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

H. P. Blavatsky

#66. 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

#67. Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.

Ezra Taft Benson

#68. Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

Idries Shah

#69. Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

Jack Kirby

#70. 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

#71. It is a strange thing being suddenly motherless. It's like losing a rudder that was keeping me on course, one that I never paid much mind to before now. Who will teach me how to parent, how to deal with the unkindness of strangers, how to be humble? You already did, I realize.

Jodi Picoult

#72. I'm totally normal. I think it's obnoxious when people demand limos or bodyguards. I eat at McDonald's or Taco Bell. My parents always taught us to be humble. We're not spoiled.

Paris Hilton

#73. Create your own job. Become the master of what you do. Fully imerse yourself in your culter. Be humble. You are never above having to pack boxes. Never forget where you came from. And always be polite. Good old-fashioned manners can get you very far. -Jenne Lomardo

Sophia Amoruso

#74. Be confident because you are a child of God. Be humble because everyone else is, too.

Melton S. Davis

#75. Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

George Whitefield

#76. 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

#77. Pride is a human nature and it's good for people to be proud of themselves, achievements, etc. but too much of anything is not healthy. Humble is pride exhibited through humility, so be humble and prideful about being humble.

Uzoma Nnadi

#78. Be confident when facing your enemies; be humble when you defeat them. Break records, then shatter them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#79. If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

#80. The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.

Serena Williams

#81. Do not shine like jade, instead be humble like a rock.

Lao-Tzu

#82. Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus.

Mother Teresa

#83. The only way to acquire spiritual knowledge and keep It burning brightly is to be humble, prayerful, and to strive diligently to keep all of the commandments.

James E. Faust

#84. Every morning I drink a glass of water to be humble and simple like water.

Debasish Mridha

#85. As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#86. Believe in yourself, know yourself, deny yourself, and be humble.

John Treacy

#87. 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

#88. To be humble is to be teachable.

Richard G. Scott

#89. Being brave in front of faith does not mean to be humble before death.

Sorin Cerin

#90. 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

#91. Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.

A.R. Rahman

#92. After a while, you start to believe that your opinions are more valid than everyone else's. It can be hard to be humble about making really good music; you really believe that you're a savior to music. That's why bands don't like each other.

Matt Tong

#93. Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#94. Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

Charles Webster Hawthorne