Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. J. Mahaney

Modesty is humility expressed in dress.

David Hume

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

David Duchovny

Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.

Ben Utecht

The greatest things I have learned from Coach Dungy would have to be humility and consistency. He truly leads by example, and he does it consistently. This allows people to really see his faith every single day, and that's the most important thing.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

We don’t discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves.

Cher Wang

As entrepreneurs, we must continue to ask ourselves 'What's next?' It takes humility to realize that we don't know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing.

Charles Simeon

Another observation, in a former letter of yours, has not escaped my remembrance – the three lessons which a minister has to learn: 1. Humility. 2. Humility. 3. Humility. How long are we learning the true nature of Christianity!

Beth Moore

True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

Bernard of Clairvaux

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Humility is, of all graces , the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

Bernard of Clairvaux

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

Bernard of Clairvaux

The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

Charlie Sheen

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

Charles Koch

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

Bill Johnson

In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.

Bill Johnson

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

Edward Hopper

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

Bernard Baruch

Never answer a critic, unless he's right.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

C. S. Lewis

And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

Benjamin Franklin

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Benjamin Franklin

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Benjamin Franklin

Humility makes great men twice honorable

Benjamin Franklin

My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.

Benjamin Franklin

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

Benjamin Franklin

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

Jane Austen

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

Arthur C. Clarke

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

Anton Chekhov

The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!

Aung San Suu Kyi

As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.

Dean Koontz

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8