Top 100 The Humble Quotes
#1. Sometimes," Father Dibue said, "though everything is in the Lord's Hands, undoubtedly, there's the urgent need to administer the Holy Sacrament of the Last Rites. Otherwise, the humble servant of the Lord lingers, such as now, waiting for grace, for absolution.
Vera Nazarian
#2. God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.a
Anonymous
#3. Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#4. True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.
Julian Baggini
#5. Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story.
Fennel Hudson
#6. The stiff and unyielding are the companions of death, while the yielding and tender are the companions of life. Therefore we see that unbending armies cannot conquer, and the strongest tree feels the axe. The mighty will fall down low, but the humble will rise up.
Lao-Tzu
#7. People forget history nowadays,that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived.
Aporva Kala
#8. The codfish lays ten thousand eggs.
The homely hen lays one.
Codfish never cackles to tell you what she has done.
And so we scorn the codfish,
while the humble hen we prize,
which only goes to show you that it pays to advertise!
Nikhil Sharda
#9. Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
Mark Twain
#10. Unplug from the humble needs of the body and a person becomes no more than a ghost.
Lauren Groff
#11. The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.
Thomas Dubay
#12. I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.
Andre Leon Talley
#13. If the Savior were among us today, we would find Him where He always was-ministering to the meek, the downcast, the humble, the distressed, and the poor in spirit. During this Christmas season and always, may we give to Him by loving as He loves.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#14. We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#16. 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
#17. Proverbs 29:23 23A man's pride will bring him low, But the humble in spirit will retain honor.
Anonymous
#18. I want to know:
Why is a horse noble and the dove beloved
but no one keeps a pet vulture in a gilded cage.
Why is the humble clover trodden upon rather than the red tulip.
I want to see anew and wash the words of the world
in wind and rain.
Sohrab Sepehri
#19. It is not speaking that breaks our silence, but the anxiety to be heard. The words of the proud man impose silence on all others, so that he alone may be heard. The humble man speaks only in order to be spoken to.
Thomas Merton
#20. To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.
G.K. Chesterton
#21. An old autumn bench is no different than a king's throne for the humble man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. Take the humble road, and listen before you speak. Ask before you suggest, and think before you act.
Pierre Quinn
#23. To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and schoo1 to be still more undervalued and shunned.
Catharine Beecher
#24. That God only whom Christ reveals to the humble seeker, can ever satisfy human soul.
George MacDonald
#25. When the church really takes on the humble characteristics of Christ, that's going to lead to revival.
Francis Chan
#26. THE HUMBLE CARPENTER OF NAZARETH WAS ALSO THE MIGHTY ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE.
Anonymous
#27. But our depraved age does not deserve to enjoy such a blessing as those ages enjoyed when knights-errant took upon their shoulders the defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the succour of orphans and minors, the chastisement of the proud, and the recompense of the humble.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#28. Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#29. Now he knew ... that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.
Susan Vreeland
#30. The subtle whispers, cues and nudges are there as guideposts, to gently carry the humble listener along the path back to the source and the true self.
Bryant McGill
#31. People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.
Aporva Kala
#32. Important decisions are made by those who are invisible, by the humble people.
Muriel Barbery
#33. The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
Rose George
#34. Trust not in any who exalt you, but in those who humiliate you. For this is the judgment of God: He hath cast down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble.
Martin Luther
#35. As the falcon launched trustingly heavenward is lost to view, the course of the higher poetry often soars beyond the ken of the multitude; and, as the humble birds carol blithely round our dwellings, so the meeker lays of the muse linger tunefully about the heart.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
#36. Ma vie piu lieta, piu ridente a belle/ ardisce aprire il seno al sol la rosa ... which express that the rose is more daring then the humble violet!
Marina Fiorato
#37. Let us make our way through these low valleys of the humble and little virtues. We shall see in them the roses amid the thorns, charity that shows its beauty among interior and exterior afflictions, the lilies of purity.
Francis De Sales
#38. 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
#39. The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.
Ed Parker
#42. And seek assistance through patience and prayer, and most surely it is a hard thing except for the humble ones,
Anonymous
#43. There is a God! the sky his presence shares,
His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth,
Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares
And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#44. A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#45. In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
#46. God Himself heals the proud. This means that inner sorrows (by which pride is healed) are sent to us by God, for the proud man will not suffer anything from others. But the humble person will endure everything, and will always say, 'I deserve this.'
Ambrose Of Optina
#47. The Lord does not show Himself to a proud soul. The proud soul, no matter how many books it reads, will never know God, since by its pride it does not give place for the grace of the Holy Spirit, while God is known only by the humble soul.
Silouan The Athonite
#49. If a hand, a situation, a wave were ever to raise me up and carry me to where I could command power and influence, I would destroy the circumstances that had favoured me, and I would hurl myself down into the humble, speechless, insignificant darkness. I can only breathe in the lower regions.
Robert Walser
#51. Humble things become the humble.
Horace
#52. The humble have once again exhibited more insight than the exalted
Iain W. Provan
#53. The proud think that their opinion alone is right. They cannot see the good points of others, as the humble do, and appreciate their opinions. That is why there is such disagreement, strife and quarrelling and even irrreconciliation in families and in other groups.
Basilea Schlink
#54. Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite "ordinary" persistence in living the humble, consistent life of Christ, not by seeking out extraordinary experiences, especially supernatural ones.
Andrew Stephen Damick
#55. The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass.
Thomas Merton
#56. The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.
Joe Orton
#57. Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#58. The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
Tanith Lee
#59. Something in the humble voice must have touched Msimangu, for he said, I am not kind. I am a selfish and sinful man, but God put his hands on me, that is all.
Alan Paton
#60. Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original.
Andrew Murray
#61. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.
Ezra Taft Benson
#62. What could be more natural for me than to look upon the Abbot as representing the highest human ideal worth striving for, just as the position of the humble village priest had appeared to my father in his own boyhood days?
Adolf Hitler
#63. Union with God is really possible. Unity with God I presume, is what is meant by Heaven, but that too is available in this life for the humble of heart.
Thomas Keating
#64. No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.
Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
#65. 23. A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Anonymous
#66. God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
Bob Goff
#67. The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.
Peter Greenaway
#68. He wondered if the real world was that one in which men fought for policies and principles and died or lived gloriously - or more often miserably - for the sake of an abstract word like patriotism or independence, or if reality belonged to the humble people and the common land.
Winston Graham
#69. The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
William Penn
#70. Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.
Chuck D
#73. The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord.
Thomas Aquinas
#74. God opposes the proud, but He gives grace to the humble. (Pro. 3:34
Anonymous
#75. The modest Rose puts forth a Thorn.
The humble Sheep a threat'ning Horn.
While the Lily white shall in love delight.
Nor a Thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.
William Blake
#76. The very first step to becoming a follower of Jesus Christ is the humble admission that we need him. Nothing keeps us out of the kingdom of God more surely than our pride and self-sufficiency.
John R.W. Stott
#77. If ever an obsolete term urgently needed redefining, the humble 'glove compartment' would surely win any contest hands down.
Alex Morritt
#78. Another scheme of Satan is to eliminate from the church all the humble, self-denying ordinances that are offensive to unsanctified tastes and unregenerate hearts. He seeks to reduce the church to a mere human institution - popular, natural, fleshly, and pleasing.
E. M. Bounds
#79. The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble; He always opposes the proud.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#80. Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.
Hosea Ballou
#81. The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it the smaller and smaller it will grow,
till he finds it the humble lantern over some little inn or stable. Not till we know the high things shall we know how lowly they are.
G.K. Chesterton
#82. 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
#83. When everybody in the world loves one another, then the weak will not be overpowered by the strong, the few will not be oppressed by the many, the poor will not be mocked by the wealthy, the humble will not be disdained by the honoured, and the simple will not be deceived by the cunning.
Motsi Mabuse
#84. I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
Samuel Butler
#85. Gentle flexibility
is the way of the humble master
Lao-Tzu
#86. A great deal of struggle and sorrow in the world comes from misguided feelings of pride of ownership and possessiveness, versus the humble spirit of stewardship as common temporary inheritors of the great resources of earth.
Bryant McGill
#87. 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
#88. The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
Phaedrus
#89. It is in descending in the humble silence of prayer that we are able to ascend to the greatest heights of true human fulfillment in union with God.
Mac MacKenzie
#91. It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble
Agona Apell
#92. 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
#93. Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
Fulton J. Sheen
#94. You see that one man will give a reward for the recovery of his tup, while another will only give thanks for the rescue of his wife. I suggest to you that one need not read the articles in the newspaper at all, for here - in the humble notices - all humanity is laid bare.
Jane Harris
#95. But most important of all, he kicked off in the humble tone he had been taught in his management courses:
David Lagercrantz
#96. The humble man reached in his pocket for his sacred book, and began to read. It was this world alone that was certain.
Alan Paton
#97. Be so without being presumptuous, imposing "our truths," but rather be guided by the humble yet joyful certainty of those who have been found, touched, and transformed by the Truth who is Christ, ever to be proclaimed (see Luke 24:13
Pope Francis
#98. 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
#99. They will forget times of distress. Rough garments will become brilliant while silks and satins lose their sheen. The humble cottage will be more desirable than a palatial home. Patience will be more honorable than power. Obedience will count more than knowledge.
Thomas A Kempis
#100. 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
