Humble Quotes

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.

The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

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.

Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

I think we were always humble.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.