Meek Quotes
147 quotes by 127 authors
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
— Samuel Butler
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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the…
— Maya Angelou
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The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.
— Harvey Penick
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Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.
— Chinmayananda Saraswati
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The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek,…
— Howard W. Hunter
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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild...
— Charles Wesley
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To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual…
— Walter Karp
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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's…
— Ralph Chaplin
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LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
— Ambrose Bierce
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For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness of grace and…
— Pope Paul VI
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There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom,…
— Thomas Merton
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The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.
— Jackie Vernon
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The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
— Mark Twain
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The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.
— Charles Barkley
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And the meek shall inherit the earth,
— Geddy Lee
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My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that…
— Harlan Ellison
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