Top 100 The Meek Quotes
#1. being meek and silent prevents social violence. The message is, "I am not challenging you, I will do nothing bad, you do whatever you want and I will stay out of your way." This is exactly what a predator is looking
Rory Miller
#2. Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
#3. My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.
Allan Dare Pearce
#5. First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.
Meek Mill
#6. A graceful heart is a virtue of the meek.
Suzy Kassem
#7. O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.
Robinson Jeffers
#8. I always had pressure on myself through my life. I put pressure on myself and not from other people. I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers. So the pressure comes from myself.
Meek Mill
#9. His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He enables us to bear our punishment with a meek and docile heart, 'for His mercy endureth forever.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#10. I'm into all types of stuff. I might have on Pumas one day, Givenchy the next. I'd wear this John Elliott sweat suit to the club.
Meek Mill
#11. Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
John Calvin
#12. We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.
Kendrick Meek
#13. Meek and drake happen to be two of the young kings with strong voices and followings that give people hope I hope they know this n b smart!
Styles P
#14. 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
#15. The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
Cassandra Clare
#16. In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
Barbara Corcoran
#17. To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble ... We must exercise the love of God as a power.
F. Enzio Busche
#18. What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?
Robert Orben
#19. The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
Mother Jones
#20. I want to share with the American people that President Bush and the Republican majority in just 4 years have borrowed $1.05 trillion from foreign nations. That is selling our country to other nations because of the spending that is going on.
Kendrick Meek
#21. How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.
Phillips Brooks
#22. I think artists should be able to do different things whenever they want and I like the way I am. I'm like - I ain't gonna say the only street rapper, but the only mainstream, new, young street rapper there is right now and I'm doing well with it.
Meek Mill
#23. In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join our name to that list.
Kendrick Meek
#24. Negroes
Sweet and docile,
Meek, humble, and kind:
Beware the day
They change their minds!
Wind
In the cotton fields,
Gentle breeze:
Beware the hour
It uproots trees!
Langston Hughes
#25. There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.
Christopher Hitchens
#26. And the meek shall inherit the earth,
Geddy Lee
#27. Christ says that He is 'humble and meek' and we believe Him; not noticing that, if He were merely a man, humility and meekness are the very last characteristics we could attribute to some of His sayings.
C.S. Lewis
#28. Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.
Kendrick Meek
#29. Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.
William Wordsworth
#30. When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. - dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy.
Meek Mill
#31. The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,
And placed it by thee on a golden throne,
And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)
Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#32. Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.
Phyllis McGinley
#33. What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?
Terry Pratchett
#35. One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.
Jack Kerouac
#36. Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant.
Virgil
#37. Oh, he understood very well that for the meek soul of a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world's, there was no stronger need than to find a holy shrine or a saint to prostrate himself before and to worship.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#38. The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
#39. The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
Indira Gandhi
#40. I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.
Meek Mill
#41. If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.
Meek Mill
#42. The Rolls Royce was the real first car. It wasn't the first new car I got, but it was the first real car I bought that's like, 'Wow, I got this.'
Meek Mill
#43. Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.
Confucius
#44. That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.
Lynn Johnston
#45. The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.
Patti Smith
#46. Ah, the meek. Playing the long game. Sneaky bastards.
Denise Mina
#47. We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead
#48. Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget:
The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.
Kelvin Mercer
#49. Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.
Carrie P. Meek
#50. the houses much smaller and meek and timid and nondescript, and even the trees were scantily clad.
John Oliver Killens
#51. Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth.
Jennifer Armintrout
#52. Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
Ralph Chaplin
#53. It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is imperishable. No outward adorning can compare in value or loveliness with that "meek and quiet spirit."
Ellen G. White
#54. The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.
Kendrick Meek
#55. Americans simply ask for, not just Democrats in the House but also the Senate has asked the President for a clear plan as it relates to dealing with the issue of Iraq and our troops and making sure that we can bring families together in the very near future.
Kendrick Meek
#56. Arrest the meek! Reward the obnoxious!
Ann Nocenti
#57. People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream
to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.
Joan Bauer
#58. The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.
Jackie Vernon
#59. That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad.
Asahel Nettleton
#60. But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away.
Mary Mapes Dodge
#61. I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make.
Meek Mill
#62. People offend you, irritate you, breathe contempt and malice against you; do not repay them in the same way, but be gentle, meek, and kind, respectful and loving towards those very persons who behave unworthily to you.
John Of Kronstadt
#63. Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.
Dean Koontz
#64. As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
Dorothy Day
#65. He'd shot and beaten people because he couldn't talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators.
James Meek
#66. If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
Carrie P. Meek
#67. To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
Barbara Deming
#68. There is so little of the meek and lowly Lamb of God in those who are called by His name. Let us consider how our lack of love, indifference to the needs and feelings of
Andrew Murray
#69. As water downs ships but upholds leaves,
and as fires burn cities but refines gold,
so do life's troubles propel the meek to greatness
and the proud to ruin.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#70. I can suffer alone, or I can hold on to God in my pain. I can be meek and trust Him to make something good out of it. Only Jesus can heal the wounds, only Jesus can fill up those dark places with light, with understanding. Only He can quench our thirst for hope.
Susan May Warren
#72. Everything that happens to the poor, the meek, the desolate, the mourners, the despised, happens to Christ.
Thomas Merton
#73. For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an increase.
Kendrick Meek
#74. I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.
Guru Nanak
#75. The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.
Arthur C. Clarke
#76. That was when I realized for the first time that Sidonia Impyrean - meek, fearful, shy, and gentle - could be indomitable.
S.J. Kincaid
#77. Spread abroad the name of Jesus in humility and with a meek heart; show him your feebleness, and he will become your strength.
Thomas Merton
#78. The money turned me into a monster
Meek Mill
#79. Tonight the rain feels so meek and muted that brushing it away with a hand might make it stop. It lacks conviction, has lost its vigor. Don't bother with umbrellas, it seems to say. I'm about to stop anyway, my heart's not in it tonight.
Andre Aciman
#80. There is not justice in this world. Father, forgive me wherever you are, but this world has brought one vile abomination after another down on the heads of the gentle, and I'll not live to see the meek inherit anything.
Barbara Kingsolver
#81. The meek don't inherit shit. Earth belongs to the wolves.
Hugh Howey
#82. The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.
Kendrick Meek
#83. And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
William C. Bryant
#84. Nowhere is human folly more apparent than among those who deem themselves wise enough to order the affairs of others.
Fredric W. Meek
#85. Even as a child, Alma innately comprehended that there were two types of silent men in the world: one type was meek and deferential; the other type was Dick Yancey. His eyes were a pair of slowly circling sharks, and as he stared at Alma now, those eyes were clearly saying: "Bring the rum.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#86. And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.
Leonard Cohen
#87. The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone
Portent or promise
and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.
Herman Melville
#88. Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.
Alice Cary
#89. The Submission Of a Meek And Timid Woman Isn't That Much Of a Prize. But The Submission Of a Strong Woman? Now That's a Gift. Something To Be Treasured.
Terri George
#90. Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
The subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure
Sting
#91. As Jack knelt in the bloody snow, he wondered if that was how a man held up his end of the bargain, by learning and taking into his heart this strange wilderness - guarded and naked, violent and meek, tremulous in its greatness.
Eowyn Ivey
#92. Though all the guns be silenced,
each soldier in his home,
There is no peace till Love comes,
till the meek may safely roam.
C. P. Klapper
#93. INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.
Ambrose Bierce
#94. The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.
Matthew Henry
#95. Being poor in the Spirit means you are humble, gentle, meek, God-fearing,kind and exhibit the fruits of the Spirit but being Spiritually poor is lacking in every thing that pertains to life and godliness.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#96. When I bought the Rolls Royce they thought it was leased, then I bought that new Ferrari hater rest in peace.
Meek Mill
#97. When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
Vance Havner
#98. Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.
Sophocles
#99. False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
Criss Jami
#100. Meekness" is the word that is used to describe how to break a horse. It means "strength under control." That is who Jesus is; he is meek. He is the pure power of God, always under control. Everything he does, he does out of love.
John Riccardo
