humble quotes

“I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me. ”

“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

“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

“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

“We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.”

— Muhammad Ali

“At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.”

— Muhammad Ali

“Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.”

— Douglas MacArthur

“How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.”

“Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.”

— Blaise Pascal

“He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.”

— Walt Whitman

“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”

— Clive Staples Lewis