(310 quotes found)
“In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving”
William Arthur Ward
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land”
Bible
“You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.”
Paul Simon
“Don't be so humble, you're not that great.”
Golda Meir
“A person can achieve everything by being simple and humble.”
Rig Veda
“The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.”
Phillip Brooks
“Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.”
William Penn
“"Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.”
Winnie the Pooh
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing”
Thomas Henry Huxley
“Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.”
Jefferson Davis