Humility Quotes
Life is a long lesson in humility.
— James M. Barrie
Humility is royalty without a crown.
— Spencer W. Kimball
It is always the secure who are humble.
- Gilbert Keith
Humility is: Greatness in plain clothes.
— Spencer W. Kimball
The grace which makes every other grace amiable.
— Alfred Mercier
We are all worms,but I do believe I am a glowworm.
- Winston Churchill
Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
- Adlai Stevenson
If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.
- Welsh Proverb
Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
- Abraham Lincoln
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
— Benjamin Franklin
If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
- Ted Turner
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
- Benjamin Whichcote
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
- Matthew
Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
- Wilson Mizner
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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
Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
- William Safire
The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground.
— Bishop Reynolds
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
- George Eliot
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
- Edward Frederick
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
- Mary H. Waldrip
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
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
- François Rochefoucauld
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
— La Rochefoucauld
A man who is at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom.
— Joseph E. Rogers
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
— Ezra Taft Benson
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
- J. Petit-Senn
The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
— St. Augustine
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
- Barry Switzer
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
It wasn’t until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say “I don’t know!”
- Somerset Maugham
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
— George Arliss
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
True humility the basis of the Christian system—is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
- Edmund Burke
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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