Motivational Quotes

Humility

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

- Arliss, George

Best Quotes about Humility

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Thoreau, Henry David

I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Rogers, Joseph E.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Madam Guizot

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

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Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

Arliss, George

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Too humble is half proud.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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)

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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Nielsen, Helen

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

Mark Twain

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It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Ruskin, John

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Too much humility is pride.

Proverb, German

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The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.

Cass, Eli

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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Ali, Muhammad

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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

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

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

William Shakespeare

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I am no more humble than my talents require.

Oscar Levant

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The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Orton, Joe

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

Davis, Joe

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Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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

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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

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

Bible

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Without humility there can be no humanity.

Buchan, John

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

Augustine, St.

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Flaubert, Gustave

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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ruckett

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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

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They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.

Burton, Robert

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Demades

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

Jules Renard

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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.

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

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Pascal, Blaise

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The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Phaedrus

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

Confucius

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