Famous Quotes & Sayings

You need to release, to humble yourself, and realize that you have things in your life you need to take to God.

Ron Paul

Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

Rumi

Humble yourself, you’ll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you.

Rumi

Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.

Stephen Graham Jones

The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble.

Molly Sims

I think it's important to come from a humble place.

Pema Chodron

This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

Philip Pullman

Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

Rabindranath Tagore

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Pitbull

Everything is humble and positive energy.

Terence McKenna

We are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to dwarf you. It tells you that the sun will not fluxuate for another billion years, that species come and go, and, in other words, on a temporal scale you don't matter. And that now doesn't matter. But when you look at the release of energy, the asymptotic speeding up of processes, we tend to be xenophobically oriented toward the human.

Ted Demme

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.

Si Robertson

We are the rags to riches story, okay, the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'Hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally, okay, God's gonna take 'Duck Dynasty' where he wants it to go, okay, and to the people that he wants it to go to.

Shaquille O'Neal

I think everything happens for a reason. With my game being the way it is, if I did shoot 80 percent, I'd be a harder person to deal with. It just keeps me humble. Just imagine me in my game shooting the same percentage that Reggie Miller shoots. I wouldn't even talk to you guys because I wouldn't have to.

Shaquille O'Neal

If I was able to have the game I have and shoot 80% from the line, I'd probably be an arrogant person rather than a humble one. Everything happens for a reason.

Lactantius

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.

Taylor Lautner

My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.

Marc Maron

I've become less angry and a little more humble by age and by experience and by going through the ups and downs of life.

Thomas a Kempis

If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Talib Kweli

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

Tichina Arnold

I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I'm not really good with submission, so that's the part of marriage and relationships that I've found very hard to deal with.

Sam Houston

I humble myself before God, and there the list ends.

Tanith Lee

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

Roscoe Conkling

The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.

Rumi

Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.

Tom Kristensen

I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.

Stephen Dorff

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

Thomas Merton

The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass.

Thomas Carlyle

What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.

Steve Martin

Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.

Steve Burns

The best traders I know are also the most humble people I know, coincidence? Or has the market taught them some very valuable lessons?