Humility Quotes

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

C.S. Lewis

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Oliver Goldsmith

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Harriet Martineau

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Bruce Barton

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

Fulton John Sheen

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.

Thomas Carlyle

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help

Miss Manners

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Bernard Mandeville

Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.

Yiddish Proverb

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

William S. Burroughs

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Louisa May Alcott

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Aneurin Bevan

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

Joe Davis

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

St. Bernard

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.

C.S. Lewis

The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.

Eli Cass