Quotes About Humility

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you.

Do not develop jealousy, hatred or envy on any count.

I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it.

Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

How wise must one be to be always kind.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.

Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.