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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.
- If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect. ~Ted Turner
- When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. ~Bernard Baily
- 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
- We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ~Rabindranath Tagore
- Blushing is the color of virtue. ~Diogenes
- 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
- 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
- People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder. ~Gina Lindley
- One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause. ~Robert Brault.
- If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. ~Welsh Proverb
- [H]e was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede
- I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ~James McNeill Whistler
- You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do. ~David Packard
- Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected. ~William Safire
- 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
- Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening! ~Author Unknown
- 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
- 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
- We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. ~Winston Churchill
- 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. ~Niccolò Machiavelli
- Truemerit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. ~Edward Frederick Halifax
- Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ~Frank Leahy, Look, 1955 January 10th
- It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. ~Author Unknown
- It is always the secure who are humble. ~G.K. Chesterton
- Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess. ~Robert Brault
- In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. ~J. Petit-Senn
- Humble is such a lonely word. ~Kak Sri
- Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. ~Barry Switzer
- When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high. ~Mary H. Waldrip
- Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
- With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ~Arthur Schopenhauer
- None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. ~Benjamin Whichcote
- We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. ~François VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims
- Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ~Dwight Morrow
- 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
- Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ~Oliver Herford
- Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are. ~Author Unknown
- Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ~Adlai Stevenson
- 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
- What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. ~Abraham Lincoln
- A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. ~Benjamin Franklin
- Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know." ~W. Somerset Maugham
- Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- 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!)
- 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
- Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. ~Peter Marshall
- Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
- 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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