Humble

Famous quotes containing the word humble:

“For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 14:11.

“Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.”
—Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925)

“Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown,
Fair Science frown’d not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy mark’d him for her own.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)