Famous Quotes & Sayings

James C. Collins

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

James C. Collins

The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.

Jackie Gleason

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

Jackie Mason

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

George Orwell

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Honore de Balzac

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

Honore de Balzac

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Irena Sendler

The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

Francis Quarles

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

Francis Quarles

The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.

Hugh Laurie

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Hosea Ballou

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.

Hosea Ballou

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

Guy Finley

Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice -- the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows -- awaits us within ourselves. Hidden in this truth is our great promise, both as individuals and as a race of beings.

Harold Nicolson

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Humility has the toughest hide.

Frantz Fanon

I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infinity. I was made to give and they prescribe for me the humility of the cripple.

Franz Grillparzer

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

Jeremy Taylor

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

Jean-Paul Sartre

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

Gary Snyder

Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

Fulton J. Sheen

Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.

Francois Rabelais

All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.