Quotes About Humility

When you're not terribly smart, it helps to be a good listener.

Don't make yourself so special," the dwarf said with a snort. "As if getting lost was some trick that only women knew. I've known men who could get lost in their own bedrooms. The only difference is that men with no sense of direction don't brag about it, the way women do.

Very well. I shall try to think like an idiot.

Modesty is not a bad habit, after all,' the priest commented. 'Alhough humility would be better.

Modesty is not a bad habit, after all," the priest said. "Although humility would be better.

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you.

It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.

As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the people fear, and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done, the people say, 'we did it ourselves!'

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.

There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest, unassuming ignorance, than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Modesty died when false modesty was born.

A modest man never talks of himself.

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave.