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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 - Fran ois 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 w 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 )

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