705 Quotes About Humble


  • Author Ignatius of Loyola
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    If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.

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  • Author Jenny Lawson
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    It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.

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  • Author Johann Kaspar Lavater
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    Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical--is made to pass the ordeal of honor, friendship, virtue.

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  • Author Lactantius
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    Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

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  • Author Livy
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    Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

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  • Author Livy
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    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.

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