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Be Humble Quotes

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
- Mark Twain

Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.
- Chinua Achebe

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
- Joseph Addison

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
- James Joyce

You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we dont know everything. And since we dont know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.
- Mitch Albom

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.
- Paulo Coelho

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

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
- Muhammad Ali

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
- Jane Austen

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
- Joan Baez

Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man infinitely transcends man, hear from your master your true condition, which is unknown to you.
- Blaise Pascal

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
- Haruki Murakami

It's easy to be humble when your life's prosper.
Nothing could be denigrated when life's so poor.
- Toba Beta

Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged--well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in--to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed..
- E M Forster

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
- Madeleine L Engle

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
- Phillips Brooks

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
- George Byron

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
- Benjamin Franklin

The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
- Willa Cather

Being brave in front of faith does not mean to be humble before death.
- Sorin Cerin

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.
- Jesus Christ

If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.
- Kinky Friedman

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
- Jim Rohn

Do you know, to my thinking it's a good thing sometimes to be absurd; it's better in fact, it makes it easier to forgive one another, it's easier to be humble. One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One may be humble out of pride.
- Michel De Montaigne

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.
- William Dunbar

Just the fact that I'm in the game is great. I'm just blessed to be working. I got a plan, but I'm humble and I try to be humble.
- Mike Epps

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
- John Wooden

You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. A servant must be humble and obedient.
- George R R Martin

Be Greatful. Be Smart. be Clean. Be True. Be Humble. Be Prayful
- Gordon B Hinckley

Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.
- Gordon B Hinckley

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
- Talib Kweli

And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.
- C S Lewis

I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood.
- George Macdonald

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
- John Madden

Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character)
I would be true, for there are those who trust me;
I would be pure, for there are those who care;
I would be strong, for there are those who suffer;
I would be brave, for there is much to dare.
I would be friend of all--- the foe, the friendless;
I would be giving, and forget the gift;
I would be humble, for I know my weakness;
I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.
- John C Maxwell

Don't be humble... you're not that great.
- Golda Meir

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.
- Dale Murphy

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.
- John Piper

There are two great powers and they've been fighting since time began. Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.
- Philip Pullman

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.
- Philip Pullman

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
- Francis Quarles

Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?
- Evan Sayet

You have to be humble when you're dealing with God.
- Jill Scott

Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

Let's talk about adoration, people love adoration but they should not love it so much, because it can make them turn from the righteousness of God and His Holy Word to receive adoration from sinners who don't believe and want their own way, so it is better to be humble, and obedient to God and suffer persecution of his Holy Word then to seek and long for adoration from men
- Lydia Thornton

I just want to be humble at all times.
- Mike Tyson

I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.
- Mark Viduka

It is a long journey, not just as a writer, but as a human being. Take nothing and no one for granted, be humble always, be kind especially when it's difficult and never forget the place where you came from and the people that helped you get where you are. These things will live on in you and through you, long after the words have faded.
- C K Webb

Love the life you have been given. And be humbled by it. It is not to be despised.
- G Willow Wilson

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