HUMILITY QUOTES III

quotations about humility

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

HENRI-DOMINIQUE LACORDAIRE

Letters to Young Men


Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands the sciences and arts, speech and poetry, action and grace. For whoso dwells in this moral beatitude already anticipates those special powers which men prize so highly.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"The Over-Soul", Essays

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Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence,
And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

SIMONE WEIL

Gravity and Grace

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It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.

MUHAMMAD ALI

attributed, Muhammad Ali

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Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.

NATIVE AMERICAN PROVERB


Humility is not thinking meanly of yourself; it is simply not thinking of yourself at all.

WARREN W. WIERSBE

The Bible Exposition Commentary


Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

DAVID RICHO

The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them


Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man, and this immediately, though, of course, only in the case of complete and permanent humility.

FRANZ KAFKA

notebook, Feb. 24, 1918

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If you see any thing in yourself which may make you proud, look a little further, and you will find enough to make you humble.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues: hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO

attributed, Christian Spirit

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

JANE AUSTEN

Pride and Prejudice

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The saints in every age have gloried in thee, as a most distinguishing ingredient in their character; and according to their eminency, has been their measure of humility. The high and lofty One, who inhabits eternity, and will not give his glory to another, when from his high and holy place he views men and their works, he turns away disdainful from the pompous palaces of mighty kings, the courts of popes and sultans, and throws a favorable glance toward the humble cottage of him in whose heart thou dwellest.

WILLIAM MCEWEN

"On Humility", Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity


True humility is the certain mark of a bright reason, and elevated soul, as being the natural consequence of them. When we come to have our minds cleared by reason from those thick mists that our disorderly passions cast about them; when we come to discern more perfectly, and consider more nearly, the immense power and goodness, the infinite glory and duration of God; and, to make a comparison between these perfections of his, and our own frailty and weakness, and the shortness and uncertainty of our beings, we should humble ourselves even unto the dust before him.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Walden

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Humility is the oil that smoothes and soothes relationships.

RICHARD WARREN

The Purpose Driven Life


Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a
thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

WASHINGTON ALLSTON

Lectures on Art and Poems


Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride.

JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER

Aphorisms on Man


Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

BILL WILSON

As Bill Sees It

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How happy in his low degree,
How rich in humble poverty, is he,
Who leads a quiet country life;
Discharged of business, void of strife.

JOHN DRYDEN

Imitation of Horace

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