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Humble Quotes

Why real dignity and real success stay humble.

These quotes argue that true dignity feels at ease even in humble company, and that success, contrary to common belief, tends to make people humbler and kinder rather than vain. See Great quotes for related reflections on character.

Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.

Quotes by Victoria Clark

It makes you grateful, it makes you humble that you have the opportunity to be a father and be there for your son. My father wasn't, so I just try to do the right things for my son.

Quotes by Tyrann Mathieu

Yes, well, on stage I'm a different person, very aggressive, very tense. That's not me because I'm humble and polite, unless someone is rude to me.

Quotes by Tricky

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

Quotes by Tony Fernandes

I think the Polynesian people and the gospel are in harmony. We're very respectful people, and very humble people... and I try and let that shine through as much as possible.

Quotes by Tony Finau

I do come from fairly humble beginnings.

Quotes by Tony Bates

I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this...

Quotes by Tom Kristensen

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

Quotes by Timothy Noah

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

Quotes by Thomas Sydenham

A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Quotes by Thomas a Kempis

I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit...

Quotes by Thérèse of Lisieux

Your fans you never disrespect, but if they look like jabroni than you humble them till they respect you.

Quotes by The Iron Sheik

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

Quotes by Thaddeus Stevens

I think Aussies try to stay humble.

Quotes by Teresa Palmer

I came from rather humble beginnings.

Quotes by Teresa Palmer

But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

Quotes by Ted Demme

My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.

Quotes by Taylor Lautner

Apl is very humble, but he's humongous in the Philippines.

Quotes by Taboo

The iPhone was such a phenomenon that even the humble journalists chosen for an early look were thrust into a spotlight.

Quotes by Steven Levy

I think we were always humble.

Quotes by Steve Brown

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this collection of "humble" quotes cover?
It ranges from real dignity's comfort with humble company, to the average person's humility before art, a plain self-description, and how success can actually humble people.
Is there a quote about dignity and humble company?
Yes: "There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble."
Does a quote discuss ordinary people's view of art?
Yes: one quote describes the average person's attitude toward art as a kind of timid, humble deference, treating it as something invented long ago.
Is there a plain, direct quote about being humble?
Yes: "I'm very humble."
Does a quote argue success doesn't always cause vanity?
Yes: "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind."

Another line describes an ordinary person's timid, secondhand relationship to art as itself a kind of humility. Explore God quotes or I Am quotes for more.