Top 1200 Humble Beginnings Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

If you're humble in defeat, everyone may still kick you, but they won't kick you as much.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.

It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Stay humble, stay grounded, remember what got you to that level-and that’s hard work.

My parents are strict, but the most important thing they have taught me is to be humble and kind and to always treat others as I would like to be treated myself.

They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

Feeling superior doesn't make one superior. Hubris does not humble others.

Be humble, don't have too much pride and think you're too good for anything.

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come.

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

There are several things that keep me grounded and focused... When you can humble yourself to say 'I'm no more important than anyone else. I just have a gift.'

Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.

Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.

True humility involves opposites. The truly humble work in silence. Because they do not speak of their accomplishments, credit for them can never be taken away.

It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past.

Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak.

I learnt many lessons from some tough experiences. One of the biggest was that no matter what happens you need to hold on to your beliefs. And you must stay humble.

When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.

Neymar is a very humble down to earth guy, who enjoys playing football and likes to play that way. Anyone that knows him understands this.

The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.

There's no job that will humble you like the White House press secretary job.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

I'm a very humble young man. I've always had to work for everything that I had.

As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.

Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

The more humble and transparent a leader is, the more effective he or she will be.

The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

Whoever is humble to men for God's sake, may God exalt his eminence.

Krishna exalts those who are humble and humbles those who exalt themselves.

No amount of praise should go to your head. You should always remain humble.

To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.

For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.

Being genuinely humble and being myself has helped me succeed in my career.

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

Patience is timing, just being humble and being the most quiet person in the room.

I have my faith in God. I was told to be humble before him. Don't boast about what you have done. Don't put credit in your own hands. You have to realize He got you there.

It's good to try and stay humble and down to earth, despite media and social media.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

It's important to stay humble, stay level-headed and keep working hard.

I like to just be humble. The more interviews, the more embarrassed I kind of get.

There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.

I try to instill in the guys to work hard, be humble, be blessed, stay in the gym, be a sponge and soak as much intelligence as a young player and embrace it.

It is satisfying following such an emphatic victory over the current unbeaten champion (Lucian Bute) to know that there's a lot of people eating humble pie.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

The more knowledge (of deen) you have the more humble you should be. Instead you are becoming judgemental.

When panting sighs the bosom fill, And hands by chance united thrill At once with one delicious pain The pulses and the nerves of twain; When eyes that erst could meet with ease, Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun Ecstatic conscious unison, - The sure beginnings, say, be these Prelusive to the strain of love Which angels sing in heaven above?