Quotes About Humility

The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men

I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.

Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.