Humility Quotes

Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.

Madame de Girardin

A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.

Edward W. Howe

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Oscar Wilde

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?

C.S. Lewis

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues.

Confucius

She just wore enough for modesty; no more!

Robert Buchanan

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

William Hazlitt

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

William Hazlitt

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Sir Richard Steele

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Kahlil Gibran

If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself.

Blaise Pascal

I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Frank Moore Colby

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Lord Chesterfield