Humility Quotes

It's always well to be the smartest thinker, but is won't get you very far unless you're the plainest talker.

Source Unknown

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

We rise in glory, as we sink in pride:Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Edward Young, Night Thoughts, ni

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

C.S. Lewis

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

Gustave Flaubert

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

C.S. Lewis

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Joseph Joubert

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

Dame Edith Sitwell

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.

John (Jay) Mccloy

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

Albert Einstein

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Charles Dickens

But the vicar of St. Botolph's had certainly escaped the slightest tincture of the Pharisee, and by dint of admitting to himself that he was too much as other men were, he had become remarkably unlike them in this - that he could excuse others for thinking slightly of him, and could judge impartially of their conduct even when it told against him. [from Middlemarch, a quote my mother thinks describes the kind of man my father was]

George Eliot

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

Ernest Moritz Arndt

Be smart, but never show it.

Louis B Mayer

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

Rabino Nilton Bonder

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. [] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.

C.S. Lewis

Without humility there can be no humanity.

John Buchan

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Harry S Truman

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Jane Austen