Quotes About Humility

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.

Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

Perchance that I might learn what pity is, That I might laugh at erring men no more.

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

Let the poor man mind his tongue

Those who know their unworthiness seize grace as a hungry man seizes bread: the self-righteous resent grace.

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.