Motivational Quotes

Humility

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

- Orton, Joe

Best Quotes about Humility

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

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

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

Jerry Van Amerongen

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.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Ruckett

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

Rogers, Joseph E.

10.

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

Burton, Robert

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

Demades

18.

Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.

19.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

Oscar Levant

20.

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

Jules Renard

21.

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

Confucius

22.

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

Edith Sitwell

23.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Titus Maccius Plautus

24.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

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

26.

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

Ali, Muhammad

27.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Buchan, John

28.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Confucius

32.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

Phaedrus

33.

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

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

34.

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

35.

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

Davis, Joe

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Arliss, George

38.

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)

39.

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

Madam Guizot

40.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

41.

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

Bible

42.

Too much humility is pride.

Proverb, German

43.

The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.

Cass, Eli

44.

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

Nielsen, Helen

45.

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Orton, Joe

46.

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

Ali, Muhammad

48.

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

Flaubert, Gustave

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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ted Turner

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