Humble Character Quotes

#1. We do have freedom of speech, but if you say the wrong word, it looks like it makes headlines. So everybody has to be very careful.

Joe Arpaio

#2. If you are humble enough to admit to your flaws then you are capable of correcting them.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#3. A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

Walter Scott

#4. Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#6. I've come to believe one of the reasons God designed marriage was to help us grow in holiness and character. We get to practice on a daily basis being humble, kind, sacrificial, self-controlled, and so much more.

Jody Hedlund

#7. Rugged strength and radiant beauty
These were one in Nature's plan;
Humble toil and heavenward duty
These will form the perfect man.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#8. We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry.

Sarah Vowell

#9. Much is written about wine ... of its makers, its nuances, its myths. The white hot center of each wine's mystery lies in humble corners of the world, where growers pour their intention, their character and their love of labor into each wine.

Greg Brown

#10. Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk."
"Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.

Diana Wynne Jones

#11. The world was all magic, and he had a special bottle of it in his right hand.

William Steig

#12. The cosmere, unfortunately, takes precedence over free food. Watch yourself, Dalinar. Life becomes dangerous, and you're at the center of it.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. I've never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.

Leonard Nimoy

#14. The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go ... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

Criss Jami

#16. God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

A.B. Simpson

#17. We should be dissatisfied with the stale, routine way we've been worshiping and seek His presence. We should build the temple and build a relationship with Him that's genuine and real.

Lynn Austin

#18. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Benjamin Franklin

#19. The man of good character is humble before those less educated than him, compassionate to those less fortunate than him, and kind to those inferior to him.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.

Bob Hope

#21. To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together ... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

William Wordsworth

#22. Humble spirit leads to a noble character.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#24. I wrote this script in 2003, when I was a humble college student, sitting in my boxers and writing in my dorm room. And I came up with the idea of writing an action-based 'Snow White,' with this kind of Huntsman character as kind of a way in. So, that's something I'm sort of proud of.

Evan Daugherty

#25. At a career peak, there is certainly the specter of competition from below, but just as importantly, there's the risk that if we aren't on a curve that satisfies us emotionally, we may be the cause of our own undoing.

Whitney Johnson

#26. Evie," he whispered, "you're so warm, so lovely ... oh, hell. I've got two months, thirteen days and six hours before I can take you to my bed. Little she-devil. This is going to be the death of me.

Lisa Kleypas

#27. You can be humble without compromising your values.

Israelmore Ayivor

#28. It's the family you choose that counts.

Andrew Vachss

#29. That's the thing about being young
we are textbook pages
of trial and error
falling down and getting up
not by way of standing and
brushing off our jeans
buy by laying where we fell
until we were high enough to forget

Kalyn Roseanne Livernois

#30. Humble people are dignified, not because they believe their behavior can be an effective tool to control others, but because they have made dignity a part of their character.

Les Carter

#31. Mitch opened his eyes, closed them, and then opened them wide. "There are big breasts in my face," he announced to anyone who would listen.

Shelly Laurenston

#32. Humility isn't as much a character trait as an action. We must clothe ourselves with it. We choose to wear it or we don't. If God has to humble us, it's too late - and that's going to be a bad day. We all have to demonstrate the humility of Christ in our actions.

Ross Parsley

#33. There're a lot of old religious beliefs that keep us stuck. Because we're afraid of the answers, a lot of us just don't ask the questions of God.

Echo Bodine

#34. I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

Dan Simmons