Top 96 Most Humble Quotes
#1. There is perhaps nothing so remarkable about Jesus than the fact that he advanced himself as the object of faith, love, and obedience, and yet he comes across as the most humble man to walk the face of the earth.
Douglas Sean O'Donnell
#2. I'm my biggest inspiration. And I say this in the most humble way. I've been through so much, just in my life.
Brandy Norwood
#3. Mary's life shows that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are the most humble.
Pope Francis
#4. I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.
Abraham Lincoln
#5. Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know.
Muhammad Ali
#6. Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they've gotten their ass kicked before.
Mike Tyson
#7. You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.
Frederick Lenz
#8. How can we thankful? We can only love the Heart of Jesus more generously and by our union with Him, become the most humble.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
#9. The most humble of huts is pleasing when it is clean; the most luxurious setting offers no attraction if it is covered in dust.
Mariama Ba
#10. Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.
Margaret Mead
#11. First, I give my gracious God an entire sacrifice of body and soul, with my most humble thanks for that assurance which His Blessed Spirit imprints in me now of the Salvation of the one, and the Resurrection of the other;
John Donne
#12. In this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.
Mario Puzo
#13. Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
Ben Harper
#14. Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.
Victoria Clark
#15. I have to say that Common is one of the kindest, most humble, grateful individuals that I've ever met in my life. I was profoundly affected by meeting him. I think he is an outstanding human being.
Ryan Robbins
#16. It's important if you can do good with power. And Jesus defined power, true power is to serve, to do service, to do the most humble services, and I must still make progress on this path of service because I feel that I don't do everything I should do. That's the sense I have of power.
Pope Francis
#17. The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#19. A solution exists for every challenge to our peace of mind. There is always a way, somehow. What holds us back from happiness is our lack of faith in the mighty power of the Holy Spirit to address our most humble needs.
Harold Klemp
#20. Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
Nancy Gibbs
#21. Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land.
Frank Murphy
#22. Southerners had a long tradition of looking for religious significance in even the most humble forms of nature, and I always preferred the explanations of folklore to the icy interpretations of science.
Pat Conroy
#23. I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.
Abraham Lincoln
#24. You will notice that the work is simple obedience. It is not complicated things, it is not fancy things or getting great spiritual manifestations. This work is within the abilities of the most humble and the least educated.
Henry B. Eyring
#25. Society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It
Mario Puzo
#26. 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
#27. If we really love and cherish Taiwan, we should hold our hands in unity to protect our country and our democratic values with the most humble and tolerant hearts.
Chen Shui-bian
#28. You are most humble and gentle when you think that the person you are ministering to is more like you than unlike you. When you have inserted yourself into another category that tends to make you think you have arrived, it is very easy to be judgmental and impatient.
Paul David Tripp
#29. The best traders I know are also the most humble people I know, coincidence? Or has the market taught them some very valuable lessons?
Steve Burns
#30. I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.
Abraham Lincoln
#31. Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.
J.K. Rowling
#32. I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.
Ahmed Rashid
#33. What is most needed for learning is a humble mind.
Confucius
#34. He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general.
Kenny Cunningham
#35. In the 56 years I have been a disciple of and in union with Jesus Christ and in my opinion, John Wimber was the most authentic, humble, accessible, and anointed 'Christ-like' man I have ever known."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#36. Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.
Flannery O'Connor
#37. GLOUCESTER
Now, good sir, what are you?
EDGAR
A most poor man made tame to fortune's blows,
Who by the art of known and feeling sorrows
Am pregnant to good pity.
William Shakespeare
#38. Not all men are like you," she said. "Most are not so weak as to require the constant pleasures of the flesh the way you do." "True. I hope you can bear with me, for I feel that a bout of weakness is coming on. My humble apologies.
Ariel Atwell
#39. Soon the Laughing Man has amassed the largest personal fortune in the world. Most of it he contributed anonymously to the monks of a local monastery- humble ascetics who had dedicated their lives to raising German police dogs.
J.D. Salinger
#40. 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
#41. There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
G.K. Chesterton
#42. Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).
Omar Suleiman
#43. On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
Thomas Merton
#44. Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.
Henry Rollins
#45. I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.
Stephen Dorff
#46. Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.
Therese Of Lisieux
#47. David Thomas: What do you think is the worst crime that could possibly be committed? What is the crime that offends you most?
David Bowie: Seeing a man humble himself in his capacity as a worker to somebody else, and having to have that accepted as a given situation.
David Bowie
#48. The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.
George Bernard Shaw
#49. And seek assistance through patience and prayer, and most surely it is a hard thing except for the humble ones,
Anonymous
#50. And for most of that time, wisdom has had to work in secret, whispering her words, moving like a spy through the humble places of the world while the courts and palaces are occupied by her enemies.
Philip Pullman
#51. I've worked with the old dames and knights - Edith Evans, Ralph Richardson - they're the most incredibly humble, kindly people because they are so big that they don't need to be unpleasant.
Ron Moody
#52. No woman is really humble; she is merely politic. No woman, with a free choice before her, chooses self-immolation; the most she genuinely desires in that direction is a spectacular martyrdom. No woman delights in poverty. No woman yields when she can prevail. No woman is honestly meek.
H.L. Mencken
#53. I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their success quickly. Most people, it takes many many years of incredible hard work, and many periods of severe poverty, and it kind of makes it all the better.
Patrick Grant
#54. We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact, we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain works.
Thomas R. Insel
#55. Among the humble and great alike, those who achieve success do so not because fate and circumstance are especially kind to them. Often the reverse is true. They succeed because they do not whine over their fate but take whatever has been given to them and go on to make the most of their best.
Sidney Greenberg
#56. The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.
James M. Barrie
#57. 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
#58. The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.
Robert Southey
#59. Water is soft and humble, but it is the most powerful and is the most endurable.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Spinoza
#61. But since we've been separated, I may most miss coming home to deliver the narrative curiosities of my day, the way
a cat might lay mice at your feet: the small, humble offerings that couples proffer after foraging in
separate backyards.
Lionel Shriver
#62. The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It's a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.
Donna Lynn Hope
#63. I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.
Paula Abdul
#64. The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.
Mike Huckabee
#65. The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble.
Stephen Graham Jones
#66. The most amazing travellers were to humble to write about it
Guido Colombo
#67. The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.
Theodore Dalrymple
#68. Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.
Philippe Starck
#69. Respond to critics with humility. Most people are experts in finding problems with whatever others do. That should not be a surprise to you.
Israelmore Ayivor
#70. We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.
A.J. Darkholme
#71. In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.
John Bright
#72. But most important of all, he kicked off in the humble tone he had been taught in his management courses:
David Lagercrantz
#73. It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus.
Brother Lawrence
#74. Patience is timing, just being humble and being the most quiet person in the room.
Raheem Devaughn
#75. If you are humble, you will always learn the most from whatever you perceive to be less powerful than you. It doesn't matter what or who it is:
Bryant McGill
#76. These are O Lord the humble desires of my most reasonable ambition and all I dare call happinesse on earth: wherein I set no rule or limit to thy hand or providence. Dispose of me according to the wisdome of thy pleasure. Thy will bee done, though in my owne undoing.
Thomas Browne
#77. But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#78. Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
Hannah Storm
#79. Humility: The most quietly profound professor in the university of Christian living.
Evinda Lepins
#80. An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit,
is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar
without that inspiration. He who is educated by the Divine Spirit
can, in his time, lead others to receive the same Spirit.
Abdu'l- Baha
#81. Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
Rajneesh
#82. The way I was raised and the people that I grew up around for the most part were very humble people, and I appreciate all that they taught me, and their energy and their magnanimity help keep me grounded.
Lenny Kravitz
#83. Those, who are believed to be most self - abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious
Baruch Spinoza
#84. Vasily chortled. "What a diplomat you've become! You've a most refreshing way about you. Given time, I have no doubt that, despite your humble antecedents, you will learn to conduct yourself with the restraint and elegance of a noblewoman."
"You mean I'll learn to shut up?
Leigh Bardugo
#85. Words, in my humble opinion, are the most inexhaustible source of magic we have.
J.K. Rowling
#86. Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.
Edward Gibbon
#87. Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.
Michel De Montaigne
#88. By vice, dissipation, and extravagance, [the nobility] have been driven to the most despicable, and often the most atrocious actions, for which persons in a humble line would be exemplarily punished, while men and women of rank claim the privilege of being infamous.
Eliza Parsons
#89. Many rich and powerful men would pay dearly to see the Lord or His Most Pure Mother, but God does not appear in riches, but in the humble heart ... Every one of the poorest men can be humbles and come to know God. It need neither money nor reputation to come to know God, but only humility.
Silouan The Athonite
#90. Most important are the lessons of being humble, being a giver, and generally being a loving and caring person for people. That is something that I am trying to instill in my kids and all the kids around the world.
Raheem Devaughn
#91. No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#92. While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his downward voyage, he was getting into a better temper every minute.
Thomas Hughes
#93. Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge.
Lionel Suggs
#94. Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart; so articulate, such an amazing speaker; such a passionate man. He's humble.
Marlon Wayans
#95. The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistical and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them , for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
W. Somerset Maugham
#96. The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively
because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?
Frank Zappa
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