Quotes about humble
humble dust roots
Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker. Madeleine L'Engle
humble pride men
I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man. John Gay
humble humility practice
The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility as possible. John Frankenheimer
humble care rich
So I've decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn't really care about money, and who is very humble but who still makes a lot of money and is very famous, but is very humble and rich and famous... Linus Torvalds
humble cups reform
To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble. Lew Wallace
humble effort requirements
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. Leonard Bernstein
humble people helping
Humble people ask for help. Joyce Meyer
humble heaven vastness
I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. John Maynard Keynes
humble people would-be
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
humble records albums
When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days. John Lennon
humble men thinking
I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe.
humble air hymns
The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air. Joanna Baillie
humble humility quality
It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. Judith Martin
humble men thinking
He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others. Joseph Hall
humble christ persons
A truly humble person knows that they are nothing in themselves but they are everything in Christ.
humble people guy
Clint Eastwood is a very soft-spoken, humble guy, actually, which helped put somebody like me at ease, who had never worked with somebody as huge as that. I'm sure that's not always the case with legendary people. Gary Cole
humble greatness rome
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness. Livy
humble use arrogant
Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
humble past evil
In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil. Mahatma Gandhi
humble knights difficult-situations
I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.
humble play soldier
A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well.
humble dust
One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
humble essentials never-forget
I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving. Freida Pinto
humble lasts be-humble
Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great? Kanye West
humble thinking government
When you travel you realize how small you are. You need to be humble. You can't be a big, brash American. You think you have problems. You leave the States and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you. They have nothing to eat, they have no water, they have no shelter, they have a terrible government. So you realize we complain about the government, we complain about food, whatever it is, and go somewhere else and you think, "Now I realize," you say, "Why people want to come to America." Paul Theroux
humble eye artist
From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him. Paul Klee
humble faces needs
We need to be humble in the face of uncertainty Paul DePodesta
humble loss hands
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
humble men sea
To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea. Gilbert K. Chesterton
humble house library
In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession. John Bright
humble firsts helpful
I remember my manager telling me, Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first. Those words were very helpful. John Boyega
humble paris bears
If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more. Matthew Arnold
humble school men
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