Humbled Quotes

“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I am humbled by the grace of God.
I am humbled by the beauty of this universe.
Humbled by others' kindness.
Humbled by life.
I drop down to my knees and give thanks.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself--set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man -- a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be--the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself.”
― Major W. Ian Thomas

“Vengeance would have us assault an enemy's pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe gains patience, courage, strength, and greater determination.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse

“I knew that I had made my last journey in the Empty Quarter and that a phase in my life was ended. Here in the desert I found all that I asked; I knew that I should never find it again. But it was not only this personal sorrow that distressed me. I realized that the Bedu with whom I had lived and traveled, and in whose company I had found contentment, were doomed. Some people maintain that they will be better off when they have exchanged the hardship and poverty of the desert for the security of a materialistic world. This I do not believe. I shall always remember how often I was humbled by those illiterate herdsmen who possessed, in so much greater measure than I, generosity and courage, endurance, patience and lighthearted gallantry. Among no other people have I ever felt the same sense of personal inferiority.”
― Wilfred Thesiger

“He looked so sad. I never saw him look sad before, he was always so superior, everywhere the king. You once called him a god from elsewhere who had lost his way.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Don't think you are irreplaceable, or the world will end when you are gone”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Poor Mr. Smith, having been so rudely dragged from his high horse, was never able to mount it again, and completed the lecture in a manner not at all comfortable to himself.”
― Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

“The hard truth is, the life thing moments happen. They are the details, the surprises, the every now and again “dang it” moments that are necessary for you to be able to appreciate good times and accomplish greater things.”
― Jaha Knight, 39 Day Lifescape-Become a Better You

“I'm just a student, one who sees / the paradox of Socrates, / to understand I do not know / and yet enlighten as I go.”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“When I saw the vanity of everything, I am humbled.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I look back once again at Machu Picchu, a true testament to human resilience, a testament to the harmony between man and nature. It is a place where the earthly and the divine intertwine, where the mysteries of the cosmos are whispered through the stones. Here, one is humbled, transformed, and forever connected to the eternal dance of life.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Days