Humility Quotes

There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.

Maurice Switzer

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.

Christopher Hitchens

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

Edward W. Howe

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

George Eliot

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Oscar Wilde

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.

Charles Dickens

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

Robert Burton

Humility makes great men twice honorable

Benjamin Franklin

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

George Eliot

Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

Benjamin Franklin

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

Horace

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

Joseph E. Rogers

Too much humility is pride.

Proverb

Modesty is the beauty of women.

Scottish Proverb

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Joseph Addison

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Before honor is humility.

Bible

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

Bible

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.

Monica Baldwin