Be Humble Quotes

• The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Being Strong, Business

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 24, 2016

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• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Beautiful, God

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• Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

  John Madden

  Self Esteem, Humble, Sunset

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• 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.

  Phillips Brooks

  Real, Humility, Humble

  Phillips Brooks (2007). “The Purpose and Use of Comfort”, p.340, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Humble, Humility

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• If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's opinions. Be humble and you will never be disturbed. Remember St. Aloysius, who said he would continue to play billiards even if he knew he was going to die. Do you play well? Sleep well? Eat well? These are duties. Nothing is small for God.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Attitude, Humble

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• It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Humble, Humility, Lows

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• Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

  Paulo Coelho

  Humble, Mean, Order

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• We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

  John Ortberg

  Humble, Humility, Christian Inspirational

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.173, Harper Collins

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• Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

  Camille Pissarro

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• 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

  Humble, Humility, Pride

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• One may be humble out of pride.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Humble, Humility, Pride

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.758, Xist Publishing

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• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

  Francis Quarles

  Love, God, Heart

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• Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

  Zig Ziglar

  Leadership, Strong, Humble

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 27, 2013

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• Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Women, Loneliness

  Mother Teresa, Roger (frère) (1989). “Mary, Mother of Reconciliations”, Paulist Pr

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• Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.

  William Dunbar

  Humble, Tonight, Be Kind

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• Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?

  Evan Sayet

  Humble, Usa, Waiting

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• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Private Albert Einstein". Book by Peter A. Bucky, 1992.

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• It is always the secure who are humble.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humble, Kids, Humility

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

  Joan Baez

  Witty, Humble, Humility

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• 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.

  Talib Kweli

  Humble, Squash, Arrogant

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• I just want to be humble at all times.

  Mike Tyson

  Humble, Want, All Time

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