Top 100 Quotes About Humble People
#1. because then they don't have to struggle with the need to die to the ego-driven self and become a humble servant of all people, which is what Jesus requires. It's much
Chuck Queen
#2. This book is a labor of love. It is dedicated to people who have cried themselves to sleep because they were 'different'. It is also a celebration of the 'inner outcast' in all of us, and a humble attempt to inspire tolerance, understanding, and acceptance. the intro from the author
Jodee Blanco
#3. We should be sensible, tactful, considerate and humble without being servile or scraping. As God's people we stand on our feet; we don't crawl before anyone.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#4. What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
Thomas Carlyle
#5. I love my tribe, the Maasai are very good people and humble.
David Rudisha
#6. You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.
LeBron James
#7. Learn to forgive "HATERS" and people who think less of you. Don't bring yourself down to their level, because you know who you are. Be HUMBLE and shower them with unexpected love.
Henry Johnson Jr
#8. I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
Louis Farrakhan
#9. Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and be humble towards those to whom you teach it, and do not be tyrannical scholar otherwise your knowledge cannot be established because of your tyranny.
Umar
#10. Humble people know their limitations: they know what they know, and they know what they do not know; they know what they can do or be, and they know what they cannot do or be
John Adair
#12. As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#13. I live for the nights that I can't remember with the people that I won't forget.
Drake
#14. We should not go to the [poor countries] and say: 'We come to ... teach you our science, to show you your errors.' ... We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn [from] these people.
Che Guevara
#15. I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.
Nadine Gordimer
#16. It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.
Celia Green
#17. If you want to be useful, you can always start now. It will be a humble prototype of your grand vision, but you'll be in the game. Start by teaching someone this week. Starting small puts 100% of your energy into solving real problems for real people.
Derek Sivers
#18. Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience.
Max Stirner
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone.
Michael J. Fox
#22. The best part of my life is I've been hired to work for the people of the state of Maine, and I'm very humble and very proud.
Paul LePage
#23. We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.
Mark Helprin
#24. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. -2nd Chronicles 7:14
Anonymous
#25. Personal dignity begins by accepting responsibility for our actions, acting humbly, and extending compassion to other people. Personal humility requires choosing living with quietness of the heart over living in the depths of animosity, despair, and discord.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#26. 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
#27. Humble people were unsettling at best. All that lack of backbone. It was just creepy. Like talking to linguine.
Laura Florand
#28. There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#29. Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.
Joel Kinnaman
#30. To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty
to the poor and humble.
Lew Wallace
#31. All great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
May Sarton
#33. There's times when you see people climbing and getting success and you start to see, oh, they're starting to really change. So I always just make the effort to be as humble and grateful as possible.
Jennifer Aniston
#34. If we see a problem in our nation we must first look at our churches. He really does want His people who are called by His name to humble themselves, pray, seek His face and turn from their individual wicked ways. This always turns a nation around.
Dean Braxton
#35. We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.
Douglas Leone
#36. 2CH7.14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Anonymous
#37. Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.
Luc De Clapiers
#38. I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.
Tony Fernandes
#39. What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.
James Caan
#40. 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
#41. Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.
Christopher Hitchens
#42. When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.
Hugh Sidey
#43. Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.
Anna Kendrick
#44. If you remain humble, people will give you love and respect even after you have finished with the game. As a parent, I would be happier hearing people say, "Sachin is a good human being" than "Sachin is a great cricketer" any day.
Sachin Tendulkar
#45. A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be 'humble enough,' and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known [Matthew 5:16].
Francis Chan
#46. Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made.
Jackie Chan
#47. When all the people in the world love one another, then the strong will not overpower the weak, the many will not oppress the few, the wealthy will not mock the poor, the honored will not disdain the humble, and the cunning will not deceive the simple.
Motsi Mabuse
#48. I would instill in my team an attitude of role modeling. We run to teach other people the value of physical activity. In all things, be humble and appreciative; hurt no one; help anyone you can.
Gerry Lindgren
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. To say that people around the world deserve the same, the same life that we have in the United States, the same freedoms that we have, that seems to me, humble. I think it's humble to say that the United States, which has been given so much, should give back.
Condoleezza Rice
#52. God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.
Ezra Taft Benson
#53. I'm a very humble person. I don't rub salt in people's wounds and I'm genuine.
Tony Vlachos
#54. I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.
Zola Jesus
#55. Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.
Lili Taylor
#57. Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good.
T.H. White
#58. 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
#59. My father taught me about having principles and how to treat people with respect. My aunt also taught me how to keep a perspective on everything that happens to you. So you learn to be humble and not take your success for granted.
George Clooney
#60. People think I'm being stupid or false humble. It's not. I don't think I always fit in. Maybe it's a complex you get as someone who has always been fighting on the outside.
Jeremy Scott
#61. The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.
Chip Conley
#62. I'm probably one of the must humble people you'll ever meet.
Mike James
#63. A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and arrogant; because our people want to serve others and not dominate others. And a nation without morality will soon lose its influence around the world.
Jimmy Carter
#64. An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.
Richard Cecil
#65. 12 As holy people whom God has chosen and loved, be sympathetic, kind, humble, gentle, and patient. 13 Put up with each other, and forgive each other if anyone has a complaint. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 Above all, be loving.
Anonymous
#66. 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
#67. I was only aggressive with my game play. I was not aggressive with people. My personality was just as humble as I can be out there.
Tony Vlachos
#68. No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.
... it was real muggy earlier, hot enough to cook a bear. Anyway, you get used a rapid weather change.
Annie Proulx
#69. People who are humble don't talk too much; they listen.
Frederick Lenz
#70. If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
John Maynard Keynes
#71. 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
#72. At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
Muhammad Ali
#73. All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.
J.C. Ryle
#74. Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people
Norman Vincent Peale
#75. Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.
Tariq Ramadan
#76. It's ridiculous that people call me a sex symbol. I don't feel like that at all. My daughter would get a kick out of it - she'd find it very funny. I'll take it though. I'm very humble. But it's certainly not the way I feel.
Mark Wahlberg
#77. Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providence to immortality. Their works survive.
Calvin Coolidge
#78. Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them.
Thomas Merton
#79. Mindy had explained that a lot of things had ghosts, not just people. Animals, machines, even things as vast as a paved-over forest or as humble as the smell of good cooking could leave traces of themselves behind. The world was haunted by the past.
Scott Westerfeld
#80. Never look down on someone because God himself does not do so. No matter what defines the status, nationality or gender of a person, once God's spirit is in him/her, he or she becomes a complete creature with complete potentials!
Israelmore Ayivor
#81. 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
#82. I think it's very humble to believe that there is no man, woman or child who should live in tyranny. That people who say, well, maybe Arabs just aren't ready for democracy or maybe Africans just are going to have corrupt governments, that seems to me arrogant.
Condoleezza Rice
#83. The certificate that promotes a divine idea is humility. Period. Get yourself upgraded with the good news of humility every day! Sometimes, it's hard to prove your humility in the face of people, but never forget that it is the only option for your divine promotion!
Israelmore Ayivor
#84. Kids clearly help center you because you can't impress your kids. People are like, "Oh, are they so excited because you're Ironman?" My kids couldn't care less. They like it when I hang out and play dad. I impress them by playing video games with them and doing well. Your kids humble you.
Don Cheadle
#85. It is satisfying following such an emphatic victory over the current unbeaten champion (Lucian Bute) to know that there's a lot of people eating humble pie.
Carl Froch
#86. It was said he could charm anyone, just by walking through the room. It was said he was blessed with a special power. But my father was humble, and he said it wasn't that at all. He just liked people, and people liked him. It was that simple, he said.
Daniel Wallace
#87. Search for the LORD, all you humble people in the land who carry out his justice. Search for what is right. Search for humility. Maybe you will find shelter on the day of the LORD's anger. Zephaniah 2:3
Dianne Neal Matthews
#88. 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
#89. People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
Bob Newhart
#90. It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
Bernard Berenson
#91. Walk humbly but walk confidently. People want to follow confident, humble leaders.
Jeff Henderson
#92. I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's aspirations. I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on people's side.
Gordon Brown
#93. I'm not so sure that the conventional wisdom makes any sense. Yes, it might be technically easy to track people and all that. But in the long-term I'm optimistic that we'll see the pendulum swing back in the other direction towards more privacy.
Rod Humble
#94. Standing alone scares alot of people it means they have to be themselves and more often than not they haven't the slightest clue who they've been all this time & that's why people stay the same because it's a frightening choice to step away from the crowd.
Nikki Rowe
#95. Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Camille Pissarro
#96. The best leaders are humble enough to realise their victories depend upon their people.
John C. Maxwell
#97. I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations.
My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.
Mahatma Gandhi
#98. People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
Alan W. Watts
#99. Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).
Omar Suleiman
#100. The greatness in life is not about ruling over people but caring for people.
Amit Abraham
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