Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.
William Temple
Swallow your pride occasionally, it’s non-fattening!
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Abraham Lincoln
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
Mignon McLaughlin
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Edward Frederick Halifax
Simplicity is the nature of great souls.
Papa Ramadas
Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
Bible
The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
St. Augustine
A man will act out what he believes himself to be.
Jacquelyn K. Heasley
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Benjamin Franklin
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
Tryon Edwards
The grace which makes every other grace amiable.
Alfred Mercier
Life is a long lesson in humility.
James Matthew
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore
There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
Laurence J. Peter
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When we become aware of our humility, we’ve lost it.
If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
Ted Turner
A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.
Fr. James Keller
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.
Francis de Sales
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
It wasn’t until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say “I don’t know!”
Somerset Maugham
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Oscar Wilde
Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.
Buddha
It is always the secure who are humble.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Humility is at the equilibrium of ego. When we’re on center, we manage our ego rather than it managing use.
Steve Smith
Greatness lies not in trying to be somebody but in trying to help somebody.
True humility—the basis of the Christian system—is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
Edmund Burke
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.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.”
Robert A. Millikan
Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
William Arthur Ward
One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
Simone Weil
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
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
J. Petit-Senn
The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
George Bernard Shaw
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.
Charles H. Spurgeon
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.
Phillip Yancey
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Keshavan Nair
Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows.
Helen Nielsen
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility — these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
William Arthur Ward
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Alexander Pope
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
Rachel Carson
It ain’t the heat; it’s the humility.
Yogi Berra
Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
Oscar Levant
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Niccolo Machiavelli
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin