Famous Quotes & Sayings

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.

Laurence J. Peter

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

Leigh Hunt

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

Madonna Ciccone

I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.

Louis Kronenberger

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Michel de Montaigne

One may be humble out of pride.

Michel de Montaigne

All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

Merle Shain

Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try.

Marvin Olasky

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

Michael J. Fox

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

P. G. Wodehouse

Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never having played golf, they never knew that strange chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip shot. If Cleopatra had been ousted in the first round of the Ladies' Singles, we should have heard a lot less of her proud imperiousness.

Paul Elmer More

In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Kathie Lee Gifford

... humility + humor = humanity.

Kathleen Norris

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

Karl Marx

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

Julia Cameron

The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.

Gretchen Rubin

[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day, Franklin would score himself on whether he practiced those thirteen virtues.

Gordon B. Hinckley

God will bless us if we walk in humility.

Georges St-Pierre

I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.

Herbert V. Prochnow

If you would like to live in a community in which you may have pride, then dedicate yourself in a spirit of humility and your responsibilities in that community.

Henry David Thoreau

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Jill Scott

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

Felix Frankfurter

The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.

Ezra Taft Benson

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

Euripides

Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.

Francis Quarles

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

Francis of Assisi

Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

Francis Chan

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

Francis Bacon

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

George Santayana

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

George Mikes

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.

George Whitefield

God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!