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

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

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

Too much humility is pride.

Proverb, German

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Davis, Joe

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Arndt, Ernest Moritz

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

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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

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

Madam Guizot

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The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Phaedrus

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Ali, Muhammad

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The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.

Cass, Eli

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The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Orton, Joe

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

Jules Renard

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

Nielsen, Helen

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

Ted Turner

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

Confucius

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

Confucius

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It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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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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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 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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Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Demades

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I am no more humble than my talents require.

Oscar Levant

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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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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Burton, Robert

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

Flaubert, Gustave