Quotes About Humility

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

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

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words

We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

The superior man limits his achievements.

The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

I once felt bad because I had no shoes, and then I met a man who had no feet. He was wearing an ankle bracelet that kept falling off.