Humble Quotes

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness. (Livy)
It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Don't be humble... you're not that great. View quote
Golda Meir
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. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
I am no more humble than my talents require. View quote
Oscar Levant
If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search. View quote
John Templeton
One may be humble out of pride. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful. View quote
John Wooden
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. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. (Sigmund Freud)
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. View quote
Camille Pissarro
Any one thing in the creation is suffiocient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind. View quote
Epictetus
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. View quote
Joseph Addison
Work at being a humble person. View quote
John Templeton
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. View quote
William Cowper
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble. View quote
Jane Austen
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen. (Paul Simon)
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears And humble cares, and delicate fears A heart, the fountain of sweet tears And love and thought and joy. View quote
William Wordsworth
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. View quote
Francis Quarles
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher. View quote
James Joyce
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. View quote
M. Scott Peck