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Humble Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating…
- Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
- It seems to us that no travelerhas ever explored them, and not with standing the wonders which science is else where revealing every day, who…
More Humble Quotes
- There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. — Saint Augustine
- I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? — Joan Baez
- The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. — James M. Barrie
- Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. — Joseph Addison
- The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. — Joseph Addison
- Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in… — Pope Benedict XVI
- The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person… — Ezra Taft Benson
- To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. — Ezra Taft Benson
- If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung… — Wendell Berry
- I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers… — Norman Borlaug
- The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real… — Phillips Brooks