Humble Beginning Quotes

#1. I was the first person in my family who was ever interested in dance, or fine art of any kind for that matter - I came from a very humble beginning in San Pedro, California.

Misty Copeland

#2. I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.

Madam C. J. Walker

#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

#4. The people around me haven't changed. The people who have been in my life since the beginning are still in my life now. I think that has a lot to do with my staying grounded and humble despite the success I've achieved.

Kevin Hart

#5. I want to change the world and I used to think I needed to do some big, significant thing. More recently I see this can be accomplished one relationship at a time.

Oliver Thomas

#6. Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble.

Ann Aguirre

#7. You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward.

Bryant McGill

#8. I do not know anything about 'all the good guys are taken' but I certainly know none of the beautiful girls are virgin.

M.F. Moonzajer

#9. I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

Thomas Menino

#10. It doesn't matter how humble your beginning was, your latter end can be greater if you will only believe in who you are and what you have!

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#11. My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#12. If the angel deigns to come it will be because you have convinced her, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning; to be a beginner.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#13. Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

David Guterson

#14. I gave up so many things. It wasn't that I was out of control - it was just years of eating anything I wanted. I wouldn't eat a whole pizza, but if I wanted pizza two or three times a week, I didn't think to limit myself. So I just cut out all the stuff that I viewed as unhealthy.

Jerry Ferrara

#15. If you have not seen the real end of the journey, don't boast much at the beginning and never be too proud and haughty in mid of the path. Keep the real end in mind and mind how to get to the real end successfully!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#16. Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.

Oswald Chambers

#17. Real maturity is the humble recognition that there is always a next step. Real success is faithfulness to that process. You are always beginning.

Justin McRoberts

#18. If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts.

David Brin

#19. Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.

Mark Zuckerberg

#20. I think if you come straight on honest as much as you can, eventually that turns into success. Maybe not as quick as you'd like.

Jennifer Warnes

#21. If you erase your memory completely, you cannot see your face on the mirror, you only see someone else looking at you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. Beware of your gifts; they may appear as tiny as seeds but at the end, they'll gain roots to bear fruits to feed the world if only you will desire to water them regularly!

Israelmore Ayivor

#23. Of course not, dear," Mr. Bradshaw said, tapping her nose lightly, and she giggled. "It's never the end
in fact, in my not-so-humble opinion, it's always the beginning.

Embee

#24. College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind and persistent person herself, but a steady diet of Antonioni films and an introductory course on existentialism had awakened her to the fact that she wanted more.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#25. Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.

Ferdowsi

#26. The point that I think myself to be so terribly clever is the precise point at which I am beginning to think myself to be god-like, which causes me to become God-less.

Craig D. Lounsbrough