Humility Quotes

The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.

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 J. McCloy

Humility makes great men twice honorable

Benjamin Franklin

The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.

Ken Auletta

Even if you be otherwise perfect, you fail without humility.

The Talmud

Humility is like underwear; essential,but indecent if it shows.

Helen Nielsen

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Henry David Thoreau

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 Haddon Spurgeon

I have sounded the very base-string of humility.

William Shakespeare

I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.

John Ruskin

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Benjamin Franklin

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

Dwight David Eisenhower

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

John Dryden

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God

Monica Baldwin

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Rick Warren

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

St. Augustine of Hippo

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

William Shakespeare

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

John Selden

Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Rabindranath Tagore

Humility and full consciousness are inseparable.

Bryant McGill

All politicians are humble, and seldom let you forget it. They go around the country boasting about their humility. They are proud of their humility. Many are downright arrogant about their humility and insist that it qualifies them to be President.

Russell Baker

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