Quotes About Humility

Las desgracias, que son lecciones y avisos de la Providencia, doman al más soberbio, y suavizan al más atrabiliario.

Ser consciente de la propia ignorancia es un gran paso hacia el saber.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Great Modesty often hides great Merit.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor

There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive. Even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. You see it perhaps often in this History. For even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my Humility.

On the whole, sir, I can not help expressing a wish that every member of the convention who may still have objections to it, would, with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility, and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.

For want of modesty is want of sense.

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself;