Pride slays thanksgiving but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

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 as a ladder the means by which we are translated?

Let us touch the dying the poor the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

There is a pride a self-love in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!

The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics all which are reaching many.

In a way a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved you can still make enemies makes you humble too.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them for the most part humble tolerant and kind.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

As a theoretical physicist I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science the Nobel prize.

In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

I didn't want to be a writer but I became one. And now I have many readers in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it and it is strange to say it this way but I respect it.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

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.