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Quotes About Humility

I'm not perfect. I am not Iron Man.
~ Nobu Matsuhisa
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot
~ John Calvin
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
~ Abu Bakr
We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.
~ Paul Washer
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
~ Hilaire Belloc
Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.
~ Henny Youngman
The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.
~ Darrell Royal
Little things are great to little men.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
May Allah show mercy upon the man who shows me my faults.
~ Umar
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.
~ Charles Darwin
The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.
~ Francois Truffaut
A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
~ Josh Billings
The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity.
~ Konrad Adenauer
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always humble yourself lovingly before God and man, because God speaks to those who are truly humble of heart, and enriches them with His gifts.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible
~ Miyamoto Musashi
The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.
~ Confucius
Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
~ John Calvin
The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.
~ Fred Hoyle
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
~ Andre Gide
Six feet of dirt make all men equal.
~ Charles Spurgeon
To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer