Humility Quotes

Too humble is half proud.

Yiddish Proverb

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).

Victor Hugo

There is no humility in calling yourself a Christian; placing Christ in the role of colleague. The humility lies in the truth of your imperfection and a more accurate description as a student of Christianity; placing Christ back in the role as head teacher.

Steve Maraboli

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

Helen Nielsen

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Tacitus

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

George Bernard Shaw

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Vince Lombardi

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.

C.S. Lewis

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Joe Orton

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

Jesse Jackson

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

C.S. Lewis

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Benjamin Franklin

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Diogenes

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

William E. B. Du Bois

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Honore de Balzac

So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.

Juvenal

Act as though you cannot fail but keep a humble spirit.

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