Showing posts with label humility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humility. Show all posts

Friday

50 Best Humility Quotes



Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.



I have collected, what I believe to be the fifty (50+) best quotes that are humilty related.
  1. If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. ~Ted Turner

  2. When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. ~Bernard Baily

  3. To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it. ~Charles Neaves

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

  5. Blushing is the color of virtue. ~Diogenes

  6. Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ~Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951

  7. Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. ~Lord Chesterfield

  8. People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder. ~Gina Lindley

  9. One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause. ~Robert Brault.

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

  11. [H]e was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede

  12. I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ~James McNeill Whistler

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

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

  15. Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all. ~William Temple

  16. Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening! ~Author Unknown

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

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

  19. There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you. ~A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture

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

  21. Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. ~Wilson Mizner

  22. It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. ~Niccolò Machiavelli

  23. Truemerit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. ~Edward Frederick Halifax

  24. Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ~Frank Leahy, Look, 1955 January 10th

  25. It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. ~Author Unknown

  26. It is always the secure who are humble. ~G.K. Chesterton

  27. Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess. ~Robert Brault

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

  29. Humble is such a lonely word. ~Kak Sri

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

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

  32. Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb

  33. With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

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

  35. We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. ~François VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims

  36. Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ~Dwight Morrow

  37. Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. ~William Hazlitt

  38. Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ~Oliver Herford

  39. Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are. ~Author Unknown

  40. Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ~Adlai Stevenson

  41. It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ~Andrew J. Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses

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

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

  44. Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  45. It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know." ~W. Somerset Maugham

  46. Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon

  47. A man may do an immense deal of good, if he does not care who gets the credit for it. ~Father Strickland, 1863 (Thanks, Garson O'Toole of quoteinvestigator.com!)

  48. Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well. ~Terri Guillemets

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

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

  51. The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded. ~Hasidic Saying






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Monday

Humble Enough



Humble enough to know I'm not better than anyone and wise enough to know that I am different than the rest!,BrianMc-quote-saying
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Another fresh posting of have you ever wondered lately?

  1. How does the Cheshire cat only show his smile?
  2. Why did God give men nipples?
  3. Why does the minute hand on school clocks always click backward before advancing?
  4. If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?
  5. Isn`t Big Kid an oxymoron?
Feel free to add any "things to Ponder" here by leaving a comment with them!
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