Humility Quotes
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Life is a long lesson in humility. (Quote by - James M. Barrie)
If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. (Quote by - Welsh Proverb)
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. (Quote by - Eric Hoffe)
Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. (Quote by - St. John Chrysostom)
To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it. (Quote by - Charles Neaves)
When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. (Quote by - Bernard Baily)
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Without humility there can be no humanity. (Quote by - John Buchan)
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. (Quote by - Oliver Herford)
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. (Quote by - Rick Warren)
Show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person (Quote by - Nikki Giovanni)
Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces (Quote by - William Gurnall)
Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know!" (Quote by - Somerset Maugham)
True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth. (Quote by - Ken Auletta)
The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded. (Quote by - Hasidic Saying)
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. (Quote by - Barry Switzer)
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. (Quote by - James McNeill Whistler)
Humility is eldest-born of Virtue, and claims the birthright at the throne of heaven. (Quote by - Arthur Murphy)
Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. (Quote by - Benjamin Whichcote)
Even if you be otherwise perfect, you fail without humility. (Quote by - The Talmud)
'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker. (Quote by - Martin Farquhar Tupper)
Give place to your betters. (Quote by - Terence)
True humility is contentment. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. (Quote by - George Arliss)
Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. (Quote by - James Montgomery)
In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility. (Quote by - Samuel Richardson)
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. (Quote by - Saadi)
I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. (Quote by - Charles Hadden Spurgeon)
Don't be so humble--you are not that great. (Quote by - Lord Lytton)
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. (Quote by - J. Petit-Senn)
In a humble state, you learn better. I can't find anything else very exciting about humility, but at least there's that. (Quote by - John Dooner)
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Humility is no substitute for a good personality. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all. (Quote by - William Temple)
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Lacordaire)
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues. (Quote by - John Dryden)
If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. (Quote by - Ted Turner)
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Humility is attentive patience. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them. (Quote by - John (Jay)
McCloy)
True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. (Quote by - Ralph W. Sockman)
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. (Quote by - Peter Marshall)
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. (Quote by - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld)
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
Humility is at the equilibrium of ego. When we're on center, we manage our ego rather than it managing use. (Quote by - Steve Smith)
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. (Quote by - Frank Leahy)
Blushing is the color of virtue. (Quote by - Diogenes)
My power will be in humility. (Quote by - Walter Russell)
Modest humility is beauty's crown. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)
I have sounded the very base-string of humility. (Quote by - William Shakespeare )
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. (Quote by - Alfred Austin)
Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement. (Quote by - Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie)
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. (Quote by - Dwight David Eisenhower)
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high. (Quote by - Mary H. Waldrip)
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
It is always the secure who are humble. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows. (Quote by - Helen Nielsen)
Love's humility is love's true pride. (Quote by - Bayard Taylor )
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility! And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity. (Quote by - John Selden)
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues. (Quote by - Confucius)
I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going let the other be where he may. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Humble things become the humble. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected. (Quote by - William Safire)
I am no more humble than my talents require. (Quote by - Oscar Levant)
There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you. (Quote by - A. Whitney Brown)
You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do. (Quote by - David Packard)
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. (Quote by - Dwight Morrow)
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. (Quote by - François)
Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that. (Quote by - Charles Hadden Spurgeon)
One may be humble out of pride. (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)
Humility makes great men twice honorable (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility. (Quote by - John Keble)
O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility. (Quote by - Lord Lytton)
Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility. (Quote by - James Montgomery)
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. (Quote by - Malcolm S. Forbes)
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. (Quote by - Andrew J. Holmes)
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God (Quote by - Monica Baldwin)
Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well. (Quote by - Abbe Yeux-verdi)
