Motivational Quotes

Humility

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Humility

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)

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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

Arliss, George

Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

Oscar Levant

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

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Buchan, John

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Demades

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

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

Rogers, Joseph E.

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Confucius

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

Nielsen, Helen

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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

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The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Phaedrus

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

Jules Renard

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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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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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

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Too humble is half proud.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Burroughs, William S.

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Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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 in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Confucius

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Too much humility is pride.

Proverb, German

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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.