Quotes About Humility

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

Great men should not have great faults.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.

I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.