Humble Quotes - page 2

When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think about gaining scientific data. The only thing you want is to come back alive. (Felix Baumgartner)
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. View quote
Yehuda Berg
I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing. View quote
Gordon Getty
A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things. View quote
Lee Ann Womack
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. View quote
Phil Lesh
Humble souls are fearful of their own strength. View quote
William Gurnall
A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals. View quote
Charles Darwin
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. View quote
John Adams
If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to be nothing next to the grandeur of the universe. We, more blessed in our gadgetry but less humble in our outlook, have been left... having no more compelling repository of veneration than our brilliant, precise, blinkered and morally troubling fellow human beings. (Alain de Botton)
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. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City. View quote
Jean Chrétien
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery. View quote
Paulo Coelho
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,. View quote
Joshua Sylvester
Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience; that all his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning - the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution. View quote
Ron Paul
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. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty. View quote
Jefferson Davis
By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned. (Alexander Pope)
[I am a humble adherent of]...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism. View quote
Ernest Gellner
I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games. View quote
Max Euwe
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. View quote
Washington Irving
My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady... View quote
Karen Blixen