Motivational Quotes

Humility

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Humility

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

Bible

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

Rogers, Joseph E.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

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

Confucius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Ted Turner

10.

Too much humility is pride.

Proverb, German

11.

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

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

12.

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

13.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Titus Maccius Plautus

14.

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

15.

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

Jules Renard

17.

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

Ali, Muhammad

18.

The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.

Cass, Eli

19.

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

Arliss, George

20.

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Orton, Joe

21.

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

Confucius

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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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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

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Davis, Joe

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Mark Twain

28.

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

Jerry Van Amerongen

29.

Too humble is half proud.

Proverb, Yiddish

30.

Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.

31.

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

Flaubert, Gustave

32.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

34.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

35.

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Phaedrus

37.

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

Edith Sitwell

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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

40.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Buchan, John

41.

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

42.

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

Confucius

43.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Augustine, St.

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I am no more humble than my talents require.

Oscar Levant

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

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

Pascal, Blaise