Humility Quotes

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Life is a long lesson in humility.
— James M. Barrie

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Humility is royalty without a crown.
— Spencer W. Kimball

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It is always the secure who are humble.
- Gilbert Keith

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Humility is: Greatness in plain clothes.
— Spencer W. Kimball

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The grace which makes every other grace amiable.
— Alfred Mercier

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We are all worms,but I do believe I am a glowworm.
- Winston Churchill

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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
- Adlai Stevenson

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If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.
- Welsh Proverb

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Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
- Abraham Lincoln

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After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
— Benjamin Franklin

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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
- Ted Turner

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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
- Benjamin Whichcote

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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

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Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
- Matthew

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Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
- Wilson Mizner

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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
- Frank Leahy

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

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Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
- William Safire

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The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.
— Bishop Reynolds

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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
- George Eliot

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True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
- Edward Frederick

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When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
- Mary H. Waldrip

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There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.
- Laurence J. Peter

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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
- François Rochefoucauld

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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
— La Rochefoucauld

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A man who is at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom.
— Joseph E. Rogers

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Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
— Ezra Taft Benson

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In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
- J. Petit-Senn

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The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
— St. Augustine

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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
- Barry Switzer

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Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It wasn’t until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say “I don’t know!”
- Somerset Maugham

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

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Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall

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True humility the basis of the Christian system—is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
- Edmund Burke

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You shouldn’t gloat about anything you’ve done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do.
- David Packard

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