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If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.
P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum
Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
Henry David Thoreau
Be it ever so humble, there's no opinion like one's own.
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When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.
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 the ladder to divine understanding.
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.
Alexander Pope
He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
William Shakespeare
The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
Phaedrus
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
Johann von Goethe
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
Mark Twain
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
Jean Rostand
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
Fran Lebowitz
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Joseph Addison
Don't be humble, you're not that great.
Golda Meir
Weel, ma´am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha´finished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet, a man can but try; there´s now to be done wi´out tryin -cept laying down and dying.
Charles Dickens
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Benjamin Franklin
We are approved by God, we don
John C. Maxwell
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
