Humble Quotes
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
Wendell Berry
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The lightbulb, the most humble and illuminating of all technologies, when combined with a network connection, transforms itself from being a bulb into a wake-up alarm, a mood alteration mechanism, and in some cases, a cupid's assistant.
Om Malik
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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I also believe that using polo as a platform to give back is a very humble way to position this sport, because people sometimes look at this sport as a little bit snobby. So I love to use polo as a platform to help.
Nacho Figueras
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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
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I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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My parents came from very humble families. My grandfather had a construction business coming from farmland, and my grandmother could never read or write. We were very spoiled. We had a nice house - and then, all of a sudden, we had nothing.
Maria Cornejo
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I love the idea of living a life that is completely humble and quiet.
Andie MacDowell
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Out of every other rap guy, Wiz is the most humble, down-to-earth guy, like me.
Ty Dolla Sign
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It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.
George Horace Lorimer
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But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.
Ted Demme
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I’m a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet, under a cow pat.
Djuna Barnes
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I've always been humble and this even humbled me even more to definitely get a second chance at my career. There are still chapters I'm writing in this legacy.
Darrelle Revis
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How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.
Albert Einstein
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To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people's faithful representative, and the public's most obedient, very humble servant.
Davy Crockett
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It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.
Jerome Charyn
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It's how I've lived my life. You show up, work hard, and be humble.
Kurt Johnstad
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I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised.
Jai Rodriguez
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I'm a humble guy, but I'm audacious.
Andy Grammer
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The marathon can humble you.
Bill Rodgers
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To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble. . . . We must exercise the love of God as a power.
F. Enzio Busche
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We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.
Douglas Leone
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A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
Mary Wollstonecraft