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Humility Quotes

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.

C.S. Lewis

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

Bruce Lee

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

Madeleine L’Engle

The world tells us to seek success, power, and money; God tells us to seek humility, service, and love.

Pope Francis

Humility is not thinking you are worthless, it is realizing that you are worth more than yourself.

Edwin Louis Cole

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues.

Saint Augustine

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Confucius

Humility, like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

Henry David Thoreau

Humility is the surest sign of strength.

Thomas Merton

The higher you go, the more humble you should become.

Unknown

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.

Jesse Jackson

A humble man is always learning.

Unknown

The best of people is the one who humbles himself the more his rank increases.

Prophet Muhammad

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Simone Weil

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

C.S. Lewis

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

Criss Jami

Pride makes us artificial, humility makes us real.

Thomas Merton

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Benjamin Franklin

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

George Arliss

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

Saint Augustine

True humility is staying teachable, regardless of how much you already know.

Unknown

Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.

Rick Warren

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Thomas Merton

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Humility is the first of all virtues, for other people.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Steven Tyler

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.

Charles Spurgeon

Selflessness is humility. Humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free.

Jeff Wilson

Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Humility, like gratitude, is something you have to keep choosing to display, again and again.

Unknown

It is always the secure who are humble.

G.K. Chesterton

Be humble in your confidence yet courageous in your character.

Melanie Koulouris

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

Leo Tolstoy

Humility is not denying your strengths, but being honest about your weaknesses.

Rick Warren

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 16:18

Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.

Serbian Proverb

There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.

Henri Frederic Amiel

True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The more you know, the more you realize how much you don’t know.

Aristotle

Humility will open more doors than arrogance ever will.

Zig Ziglar

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Socrates

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Saint Augustine

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Michel de Montaigne

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Winston Churchill

A great man is always willing to be little.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right.

Ezra Taft Benson

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

Saint Vincent de Paul

Humility is the key to wisdom.

Unknown

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap.

Rick Pitino

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Andrew Murray

Never be proud but show humility towards others, true wisdom lies in being humble.

Unknown

The humblest is the greatest of all.

Unknown

A true genius admits that he knows nothing.

Albert Einstein

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

C.S. Lewis

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Charles Caleb Colton

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

Madeleine L’Engle

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

Ezra Taft Benson

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

William Law

Humility is the essence of love and intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Steve Jobs

Humility is the essence of love and intelligence; it is not submissiveness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is always the secure who are humble.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Lao Tzu

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility.

T.S. Eliot

Before honor is humility.

Proverbs 15:33

Humility is the greatest quality that a man can have, and arrogance is undoubtedly the worst.

Maulana W. Khan

Humility is attentive patience.

Simone Weil

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Matthew 5:5

Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.

C.S. Lewis

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Cicero

The way to God is the humility of a child; the way to knowledge is the humility of a scholar.

Unknown

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

Judith Martin

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

Mignon McLaughlin

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility.

James E. Faust

Humility is not a station we arrive at, but a way of life we embrace.

Unknown

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Vanna Bonta

Humility is the light that makes everything clear.

Unknown

Humility is the greatest quality a man can have, and arrogance is undoubtedly the worst.

Maulana W. Khan

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

Martin Luther