Humble famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Nothing is difficult for the humble.
-- Mary Faustina Kowalska -
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 -
A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how, nor is it willing, to probe with precision the depths of its own misery. It puts on a mask and avoids everything that might bring it recovery.
-- Mary Faustina Kowalska -
Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
-- Mary Oliver -
Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, and softly, and exclaiming of their dearness, fill your arms with the white and pink flowers, with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, their eagerness to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are nothing, forever?
-- Mary Oliver -
If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.
-- Matthew Arnold -
A modest dress is a very good thing, if it be the genuine indication of a humble heart, and is to instruct; but it is a bad thing if it be the hypocritical disguise of a proud ambitious heart, and is to deceive. Let men be really as good as they seem to be, but not seem to be better than really they are.
-- Matthew Henry -
Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.
-- Matthew Henry -
No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck -
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
-- Max Ehrmann -
I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.
-- Max Ehrmann -
I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.
-- Max Euwe -
I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.
-- Max Schmeling -
It would be foolish to assert that there is no power above mine. Only the attitude that I take toward it will be quite another than that of the religious age: I shall be the enemy of every higher power, while religion teaches us to make it our friend and be humble toward it.
-- Max Stirner -
Before what is sacred, people lose 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 my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my conscience.
-- Max Stirner -
So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn't have hubris and think that we can understand everything. But history tells us that there is good reason to believe that we will continue making fantastic progress in the years ahead.
-- Max Tegmark -
Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This humble outdated “toy†continues to bring out the visionary child in filmmakers and viewers alike, and no one has kept the PXL flame burning longer or brighter than Gerry.
-- Michael Almereyda -
If you want to become humble, the first thing you have to admit is that you are proud.
-- Michael Catt -
All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.
-- Michael Eric Dyson -
I am humble enough to recognize that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are.
-- Michael Heseltine -
The more humble and transparent a leader is, the more effective he or she will be.
-- Michael Hyatt -
Be humble, believe in yourself, and have the love of the world in your heart.
-- Michael Jackson -
Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.
-- Michael Kinsley -
Humility may bring you humiliation here on earth, but surely not in heaven.
-- Michael Ugwu Eneja -
Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it.
-- Michael Ugwu Eneja -
A genuinely humble person humbles himself even before those who should be humbled by his presence.
-- Michael Ugwu Eneja -
Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven.
-- Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin -
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 -
I'm humble enough to wait and just chill. I'm having fun just working with these good people, man.
-- Mike Epps -
More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic.
-- Mike Tomlin -
I had it in my mind: to be confident, and to keep saying that until the confidence appeared. But I took it too far. Confidence did help make me champion, but, man, I took it to a whole different level. I was a megalomaniac. I was not humble and it eventually came back on me. So I want my kids to know, keep humbleness and kindness in their hearts. It will prevail.
-- Mike Tyson -
Kindness and humbleness are really good qualities to possess. But, if you have to use the word humble, it means you're not humble. And if you're not humble to this world, this world will thrust humbleness upon you.
-- Mike Tyson -
When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.
-- Mike Tyson -
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.
-- Mira Sorvino -
I think it's important to come from a humble place.
-- Molly Sims -
One of our troubles is we are not willing to humble ourselves. We are not willing to give up our opinions as to how things should be done. We want a revival to come just in our way. You never saw two revivals come just alike. We must let them come in God's way. People are ashamed to admit they need a revival. If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.
-- Mordecai Ham -
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
-- Mother Teresa -
We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.
-- Mother Teresa -
If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.
-- Mother Teresa -
Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus
-- Mother Teresa -
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 -
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 -
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
-- Muhammad Ali -
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 -
We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.
-- Muhammad Iqbal -
As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.
-- Murray Gell-Mann -
The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.
-- Nachman of Breslov -
A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.
-- Nachman of Breslov -
If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what we can buy and build, and that has never been America's true God.
-- Nancy Gibbs -
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 -
The day you become humble is the day you become successful.
-- Naveen Jain -
I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.
-- Ndamukong Suh -
A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him; when we pray in His name it should be without wavering. Remember His merits, and how prevalent they must be. "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace."
-- Nehemiah Adams -
Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos-and our humble place within it.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
-- Nelson Mandela -
There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.
-- Nelson Mandela -
Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.
-- Nelson Mandela -
Nothing stirs God’s heart more than a humble heart and a merciful spirit. God responds to mercy, because it is through compassion that we fully come to know Him. This is the defining quality of a true follower of Christ. We are never closer to the heart of God than when we are forgiving someone. And we are never farther from it than when we are holding a grudge.
-- Nicky Cruz -
I'd compare myself to Zinedine Zidane... a humble guy who just happened to be the best
-- Nicolas Anelka -
No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.
-- Nikita Khrushchev -
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
-- Nikolaj Velimirovic -
I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.
-- Norman Borlaug -
The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous.
-- Norman L. Biggs -
The more knowledge (of deen) you have the more humble you should be. Instead you are becoming judgemental.
-- Nouman Ali Khan -
A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one's helplessness and let our holy and almighty God care for us, just as an infant surrenders himself to his mother's care.
-- Ole Hallesby -
Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).
-- Omar Suleiman -
No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.
-- Orison Swett Marden -
Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.
-- Orrin Woodward -
Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?
-- Orson Scott Card -
I am no more humble than my talents require.
-- Oscar Levant -
Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
-- Oswald Chambers -
Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.
-- Oswald Chambers -
The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer; no spiritualistic seance can succeed in the presence of a humble praying saint. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work till we cannot think in prayer.
-- Oswald Chambers -
The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.
-- Ouida -
Of all trees , I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb; of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove . Christ is the rose of the field, and the lily of the valley. When God appeared to Moses , it was not in the lofty cedar nor the sturdy oak nor the spreading palm; but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject shrub; as if He would, by these elections, check the conceited arrogance of man.
-- Owen Feltham -
Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favours. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.
-- P. G. Wodehouse -
When someone saves your life and gives you life, there is gratitude and humility; there is a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance in life that maybe, you did or did not deserve.
-- Pat Summerall -
God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.
-- Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow -
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting industry seeking narrative truth across the crevasse of time as autobiography folds itself into the vast, fluid essay that is history. A single voice singing its aria in a corner of the crowded world.
-- Patricia Hampl -
The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all.
-- Patricia Hampl -
We need to be humble in the face of uncertainty
-- Paul DePodesta -
If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.
-- Paul Dirac -
He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.
-- Paul Klee -
Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but to bow down to secret things in humble veneration, and to abandon God's mysteries to God, for Truth deceives no man-Almighty God can do all things. Amen.
-- Paul of the Cross -
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
-- Paul Simon -
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware
-- Paul Tillich -
The church is in trouble-that's what they say anyways. The problem is most of what they call the church is not the church, and the church is not quite as in trouble as everybody thinks. As a matter of fact, the church today is absolutely beautiful-she's glorious, she's humble, she's broken, and she's confessing her sin. The problem is what everybody's calling the church today isn't the church. Basically, by and large, what's called the church today is nothing more than a bunch of unconverted church people with unconverted pastors.
-- Paul Washer -
For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
-- Paula Cole -
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
-- Paulo Coelho -
The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Stay hungry, remain humble and get better today.
-- Pete Carroll -
Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle, Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble.
-- Pete Rock -
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 -
Is not our Lord as meek and humble in the Blessed Sacrament as He was during His life on earth? Is He not always the Good Shepherd, the Divine Consoler, the Changeless Friend? Happy the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, and in the Eucharist all things!
-- Peter Julian Eymard -
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
-- Peter Marshall -
My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.
-- Petra Stunt -
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.
-- Phil Lesh -
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.
-- Phil Robertson
