Quotes About Humility

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.