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• I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.

  Debi Mazar

  Running, Path, Midnight

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Nothing stirs God’s heart more than a humble heart and a merciful spirit. God responds to mercy, because it is through compassion that we fully come to know Him. This is the defining quality of a true follower of Christ. We are never closer to the heart of God than when we are forgiving someone. And we are never farther from it than when we are holding a grudge.

  Nicky Cruz

  Heart, Compassion, Forgiving

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• When all of our idols are taken away, all our securities and defense mechanisms,
  we find out who we really are. We’re so little, so poor, so emptyand a shock to ourselves. But the Biblical God takes away our shame,
  and we are eventually able to present ourselves in an honest and humble form.
  Then we find out who we really are and who God is for usand it is more than enough. That is how an enslaved people became God’s people, Israel.

  Aaron Lines

  Taken, Biblical, Israel

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• Always enter like a kitten and leave like a lion. But NEVER enter like a lion and leave like a kitten. Always be humble.

  Carlson Gracie

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming.

  Vishen Lakhiani

  Success, Dream, Respect

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• Staying humble has always been really important to me, and always being proud of what you're representing.

  Jordyn Wieber

  Important, Proud, Staying

  "Gymnast Jordyn Wieber on Staying Focused and Crushing on Justin Bieber". Interview with Caitlin Brown, www.self.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

  Cass Gilbert

  Soul, Genius, Birth

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• May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

  Ralph Thomas Walker

  Book, Illusions Of Grandeur, Years

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• It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Prayer, Suffering, Triumph

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• No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meaning Of Life, Mindfulness

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• Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven.

  Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

  Beautiful, Stars, Science

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• Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility.

  Henri Nouwen

  Strong, Real, Humility

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• Humble things become the humble.

  Horace

  Humility

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 380-81, Epistles, I, 7, 44, 1922.

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• When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Advice, Ignorant

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• A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one's helplessness and let our holy and almighty God care for us, just as an infant surrenders himself to his mother's care.

  Ole Hallesby

  Mother, Heart, Care

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Stay true in the dark, and humble in the spotlight.

  Harold B. Lee

  Dark, Spotlight, Stay True

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• The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.

  Thomas Dubay

  Brother, Assuming, Wiser

  Thomas Dubay (1997). “Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment”, p.132, Ignatius Press

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• If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.

  Matthew Arnold

  Paris, Bears, Flight

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.459, Delphi Classics

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• Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Mean, Self

  Stephen M.R. Covey (2006). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Men, Office, Matter

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• You are happiest when you are most humble. You are most miserable when you are egotistical.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Miserable

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• When you're humble it's like wearing a beautiful flower. It inspires others. It generates energy and power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Flower, Humility

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• People who are humble don't talk too much; they listen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, People

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• If you wish to cultivate humility, then you should associate with those who are humble.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Wish

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• You've got to remain humble because you never know when somebody will hand you your ass.

  Soa Palelei

  Hands, Mma, Ass

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