Humility Quotes
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Humility is the state of being humble. A humble person is generally thought to be unpretentious and modest: someone who does not think that he or she is better or more important than others. Humility is not to be confused with humiliation, which is the act of making someone else feel ashamed, and is seen as something completely different. It is a virtue, is the quality of being humble or having a lowly opinion of oneself, meekness, lowliness, humbleness, the opposite of pride or haughtiness. The Law of Humility is God's Wisdom and Love in perfect balance as Compassion. Humility is Nonresistance in its purest expression. True Humility is complete willing surrender to be ready for the Father's use in any capacity, in any way, anywhere, anytime.
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Humility quotes teach the people how to be humble and down to earth in their lives so that they can love and respect the mutual existence of others as well. Humility is the other name of God, which means that a person who is humble is the most close to God and his abode.
Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
Helen Nielsen
The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
Saadi
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius
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
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
George Arliss
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
Confucius
Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
Demades
The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,
Charles Hadden Spurgeon
Give place to your betters.
Terence
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
One may be humble out of pride.
Michel de Montaigne
We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
Alexander Pope
He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility! And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he may.
Charles Dickens
When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.
Author Unknown
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
Fran Lebowitz
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
Alexander Pope
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
George Bernard Shaw
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
Charles Hadden Spurgeon
Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie
The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.
Jerry Van Amerongen
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
Jules Renard
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Kanye West
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Madam Guizot
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Mark Twain
'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.
Charles Dickens
show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person
Nikki Giovanni
I am no more humble than my talents require.
Oscar Levant
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
Ted Turner
Don't be so humble--you are not that great.
Lord Lytton
One may be humble out of pride.
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.
James Montgomery
It well becomes a young man to be modest.
Titus Maccius Plautus
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
William Shakespeare
Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility.
James Montgomery
Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Thomas Moore
I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.
Alexander Pope
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
Philip James Bailey
Humble things become the humble.
Horace
God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.
John Keble
O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
Lord Lytton
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