Motivational Quotes

Humility

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

- Beethoven, Ludwig Van

Best Quotes about Humility

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

Ruckett

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Edith Sitwell

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Confucius

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Orton, Joe

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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The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Phaedrus

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

Arliss, George

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Too much humility is pride.

Proverb, German

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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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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ted Turner

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Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.

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

Nielsen, Helen

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Too humble is half proud.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Jules Renard

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Without humility there can be no humanity.

Buchan, John

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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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Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Confucius

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

Burton, Robert

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The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.

Cass, Eli

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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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Confucius

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

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Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Demades

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

Bible

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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