(290 quotes found)
“A person can achieve everything by being simple and humble.”
Rig Veda
“Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.”
Jefferson Davis
“You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.”
Paul Simon
“When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.”
Muhammad Ali
“I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.”
Winnie the Pooh
“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
“To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.”
Catharine Esther Beecher
“If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.”
John Templeton
“To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.”
John Ruskin
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