Humble Quotes

120 Humble Quotes

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I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised.
Jai Rodriguez

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
Kong Fuzi

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Act as though you cannot fail but keep a humble spirit.
Anonymous

The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility as possible.
John Frankenheimer

I am no more humble than my talents require.
Oscar Levant

The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.
Norman Vincent Peale

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
Thomas Fuller

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

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
Leonardo da Vinci



Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.
William Gurnall

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mohandas Gandhi

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.
Josephine Johnson

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
Steven Tyler

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.
Joseph Hall

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there is gratitude and humility; there is a time you’ve been so blessed you realize you’ve been given another chance in life that maybe, you did or did not deserve.
Pat Summerall

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.
Johannes Tauler

If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.
The Wedded Unmother

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.
Johannes Tauler

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.
Anon



We come nearest to the great, when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Togore

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspectives, abilities and judgments are radically different from yours and perhaps, better than yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee Hock

Don't be humble... you're not that great.
Golda Meir

It takes humility and patience to listen to your little children talk to you with excitement about a matter of which you have no interest.
Gabriel Eche

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.
Giorgio Morandi

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.
John Dewel

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

Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone’s garden.
Aristotle

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Keshavan Nair

But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.
Alphonsus Liguori



Humility is a priceless virtue; however, it takes a lot of self-emptying to cultivate it.
Michael Eneja

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

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mohandas K Gandhi

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Simone Weil

Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverbs

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthur

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties, to know of wonder and humility.
Rachel Carson

If you are right, take the humble side –you will help the other fellow. If you are wrong, take the humble side – and you will help yourself.
Anonymous

Humility is attentive patience.
Simone Weil

Vanity is the result of a delusion that someone is paying attention.
Paul E Sweeney



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