Quotes About Humility

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother. I shall always delight to meet an ass after my own heart when I have finished my travels.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.

I am only human, although I regret it.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

They say I work for the angels they never said I was one

But hunger is pride's master...

Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

They are common defects of my own, and one mustn't criticise other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself.

As near as I can make out, geniuses think they know it all, and so they won't take people's advice, but always go their own way, which makes everybody forsake them and despise them, and that is perfectly natural. If they was humbler, and listened and tried to learn, it would be better for them.

He says, naïvely, outspokenly, and without suggestion of embarrassment: I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. You see, it is only another way of saying, I the Lord thy God am a small God; a small God, and fretful about small things.

God made the Sea of Galilee and its surroundings as they are. Is it the province of Mr. Grimes to improve upon the work?

Without doubt modesty is nothing less than a holy feeling;

So we poked along back home, and I warn't feeling so brash as I was before, but kind of ornery, and humble, and to blame, somehow—though I hadn't done nothing. But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway .