Humble Quotes

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

One may be humble out of pride.

In the investing business you need a – a high degree of confidence but you also need a high degree of humbleness and you have to balance those two… Humbleness comes from mistakes.

I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

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

He who lives in eternity dwells in the heart of the humble and in the soul of the penitent!

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.

I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.

I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . .

Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.