Motivational Quotes

Humility

Be it ever so humble, there's no opinion like one's own.

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Best Quotes about Humility

1.

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

Lois McMaster Bujold

3.

Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.

Nielsen, Helen

4.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Augustine, St.

6.

Too much humility is pride.

Proverb, German

7.

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Orton, Joe

8.

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.

Baldwin, Monica

9.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Edith Sitwell

10.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius

11.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Mark Twain

12.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Buchan, John

13.

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.

Cass, Eli

15.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Phaedrus

16.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Confucius

17.

Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

Davis, Joe

18.

Be it ever so humble, there's no opinion like one's own.

19.

If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself.

Pascal, Blaise

20.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Jules Renard

21.

Too humble is half proud.

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

23.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. [Philippians 2:3]

Bible

24.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

William Shakespeare

25.

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

26.

A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.

Ruckett

27.

When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.

Ali, Muhammad

28.

A man who is at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom.

Rogers, Joseph E.

29.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

Burroughs, William S.

30.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

Billings, Josh

31.

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Ted Turner

32.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels

Bonder, Rabino Nilton

34.

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

Lombardi, Vince

35.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

Confucius

36.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Titus Maccius Plautus

37.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Flaubert, Gustave

38.

A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.

Jerry Van Amerongen

40.

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.

Mccloy, John (Jay)

41.

Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.

42.

When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.

43.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

Oscar Levant

44.

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

Kanye West

45.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Madam Guizot

46.

If you are right, take the humble side -- you will help the other fellow. If you are wrong, take the humble side -- and you will help yourself.

47.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

48.

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Demades