#humble

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#best #clever #condescension #humble #humility

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. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#far #found #get #guy #home

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

— Muhammad Ali

#be humble #great #hard #humble #i

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#brothers #cardinals #dear #elected #great

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#dread #fear #follow #humble #inmost

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen. ↗

— Paul Simon

#how #humble #know #pen #place

Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,. ↗

— Joshua Sylvester

#base #heaven #high #humble #i

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#away #build #businesses #channel #highest

It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being. ↗

— David Maraniss

#being #characteristics #characters #could #develop

For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another. ↗

— Criss Jami

#christianity #fearless #flaws #honesty #humble