The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have so to speak pawned a part of their narcissism.

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.

May I say finally that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

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

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

Jealousy is not at all low but it catches us humbled and bowed down at first sight.

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

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now I'll be a better man a more mature man a wiser man a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people I've found don't get very far.

Remember the rights of the savage as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan among the winter snows is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God as can be your own.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at and humbled for his sins.

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

The humblest individual exerts some influence either for good or evil upon others.

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now I'll be a better man a more mature man a wiser man a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak He is strong.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.