Motivational Quotes

Humility

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

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Humility

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

Davis, Joe

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

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

The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.

Cass, Eli

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.

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

Nielsen, Helen

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

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

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.

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

Burton, Robert

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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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Too much humility is pride.

Proverb, German

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It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Confucius

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Without humility there can be no humanity.

Buchan, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Madam Guizot

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I am no more humble than my talents require.

Oscar Levant

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Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Demades

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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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The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Phaedrus

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Jules Renard

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

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Confucius

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