Definition of Humble

Humble Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest. Hornless. See Hummel. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively. Related Definitions: Abase, And, Arrogance, Arrogant, As, Assuming, Bring, By, Claiming, Cottage, Exaltation, For, God, Ground, High, Hornless, Humble, Hummel, In, Independence, Judged, Little, Lofty, Low, Lower, Lowly, Magnificent, Make, Meek, Mind, Modest, Near, Not, Of, Often, One, Or, Power, Pretentious, Pride, Proud, Reduce, See, Self, Submissive, The, Thinking, To, Unassuming, Unworthy, Used, When

Humble Quotations Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. Mother Teresa My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Albert Einstein It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am. Muhammad Ali 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 When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble. Muhammad Ali If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. Kahlil Gibran The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. C. S. Lewis Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. John Wooden If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated? Henry David Thoreau Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale

Humble Translations humble in Dutch is nederig, onderdanig, deemoedig humble in French is humble humble in Latin is humilis humble in Norwegian is beskjeden, ydmyk, ydmyke humble in Spanish is humilde