Quotes About Humility

Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of a man.

When thou doest alms, do not let thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Take egotism out, and you would castrate the benefactor.

He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.

Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!

When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

The genius of happiness is still so rare, is indeed on the whole the rarest genius. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.

A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good to which we are entitled, we must give of that which we have.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

Don't be so humble. You're not that great.

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.

After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser.

'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.