Motivational Quotes

Humility

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

- Nielsen, Helen

Best Quotes about Humility

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

Arliss, George

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Phaedrus

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Rogers, Joseph E.

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Confucius

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

William Shakespeare

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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Too humble is half proud.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Flaubert, Gustave

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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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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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I am no more humble than my talents require.

Oscar Levant

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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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It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Too much humility is pride.

Proverb, German

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

Ted Turner

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

Ali, Muhammad

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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jerry Van Amerongen

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The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.

Cass, Eli

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

Confucius

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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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Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.

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The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Orton, Joe

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

Burton, Robert

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

Nielsen, Helen

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

Davis, Joe

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