Humble

Famous quotes containing the word humble:

“If he exalt himself, I humble him; if he humble himself, I exalt him; and I always contradict him, till he understands that he is an incomprehensible monster.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 18:4.

“In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of some wrong,—if it is only to make a better paste blacking,—and they are themselves so much the better morally for it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)