Humble Quotes - page 24

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered. (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky)
Along the road your steps may stumble Your thoughts may start to stray But through it all a heart held humble Levels and lights your way. View quote
Dan Fogelberg
The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers. View quote
William Penn
I knew I would be in the story somewhere," Eugenides interjected. "Oh no," said Phresine, "This was a humble servant." "Ouch." "Though very courageous." "Not me," whispered Eugenides to his pillow. View quote
Megan Whalen Turner
My life has been a privilege. I come from a very humble family. No one in my family was an artist or worked in film...I'm not special. I completely understand that what I did, anyone can do it ... I learned to do the things I love to do when I didn't want to do them. View quote
Edward James Olmos
I don't want to provide a category that people can apply to me. Those who say that "believer” and "atheist” are concrete categories do violence to the mystery we must be humble enough to confess. I would not want my convictions reduced to a word. View quote
Roger Ebert
Even the most humble insect and the most insignificant idea are the military encampments of God. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Instead of supplanting you at his altar, we would exhort you to build high his monuments; let them be of the most costly material, of the most cunning workmanship; let their forms be symmetrical, beautiful, and perfect, let their bases be upon solid rocks, and their summits lean against the unchanging blue, overhanging sky, and let them endure forever! But while in the abundance of your wealth, and in the fullness of your just and patriotic devotion, you do all this, we entreat you to despise not the humble offering we this day unveil to view; for while Abraham Lincoln saved for you a country, he delivered us from a bondage, according to Jefferson, one hour of which was worse than ages of the oppression your fathers rose in rebellion to oppose. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. (Abraham Joshua Heschel)
He who has ever been confronted with the ultimate and has realized that sun and stars and souls do not ramble in a vacuum will keep his heart in readiness for the hour when the world is entranced, awaits a soul to breathe in the mystery that all things exhale in their craving for salvation. For things are not mute. The stillness is full of demands. Out of the world comes a behest to instill into the air a rapturous song for God, to incarnate in the stones a message of humble beauty, and to instill a prayer for goodness in the hearts of all children. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain the sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments. Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. It is all we can offer in return for the mystery by which we live. Who is worthy to be present at the constant unfolding of time? View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . . View quote
Ryszard Kapuściński
People from all walks of life and all over the world look at me and know my humble beginnings and know that everything I've done has been through hard work. People respect me as a marketer and brand builder. View quote
Sean Combs
How you would watch her, spaniel-like, to anticipate her slightest wish! How proud you were to do her bidding! How delightful it was to be ordered about by her! To devote your whole life to her and to never think of yourself seemed such a simple thing. You would go without a holiday to lay a humble offering at her shrine, and felt more than repaid if she only deigned to accept it. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
[Interviewer: You're not known to be a humble man. But I wonder-] I think I am actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand. View quote
Donald Trump
Others, who have the common amount of charity and have not yet grown in grace to this extent, but are guided by their own reason, struggle and strive all day against their sins in order to acquire virtues. Like wrestlers, they are sometimes on top, and sometimes underneath. Such people are doing well. They acquire virtues through their own reason and will, but not because they love and delight in virtue, for they have to exert all of their energy to overcome their natural instincts in order to possess them. Consequently they never enjoy true peace or final victory. They will receive a great reward, but they are not yet sufficiently humble. They have not yet put themselves wholly into God's hands, because they do not yet see Him. View quote
Walter Hilton
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded. (Ann Radcliffe)
Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you. View quote
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor. View quote
Pope John XXIII
I do think women generally are more humble. View quote
Kay Bailey Hutchison
The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. It's self centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. View quote
John Templeton