Humility Quotes

I'm normally a really humble guy.

— Finn Balor

“Que sais je? [What do I know?]”

— Montaigne, Michel de

I had a very modest upbringing.

— Balthazar Getty

Modesty is the color of virtue.

— Anonymous

Modesty is the highest elegance

— Coco Chanel

“Modesty is for the weak.”

— Ralph L. Angelo Jr

I'm not meek at all.

— Paula Radcliffe

I am a really humble person.

— Joanna Krupa

Being humble is cooler than being famous.

— Robin Sharma

Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you.

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Sometimes it's hard being humble when nobody notices it.

— Damian Coleman

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

— Friedrich Schiller

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

— Linda Chavez

I think Aussies try to stay humble.

— Teresa Palmer

There is beauty and humility in imperfection.

— Guillermo del Toro

“humility comes before honor and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

— John Bunyan

“Modesty be damned, I'm done caring whether other Mormons will be offended by the sight of my midriff.”

— Nicole Hardy

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

— John Templeton

“You don't have to be a big name to do big things. Shine does not require recognition.”

— T.F. Hodge

When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Rajinikanth is humility personified. He's a huge star in India, and people are dying to just see him on the screen.

— S. S. Rajamouli

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

— Seneca the Younger

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

— Oscar Levant

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

— Augustus William Hare

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to…

— Margaret Halsey

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is…

— Francis Quarles

...Basketball doesn't care what color your skin is. It doesn't care what language you speak or what religion you practice. It doesn't…

— Jim Calhoun

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool, level-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.

— Michael Johnson

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of…

— Gautama Buddha

“An educated woman carries herself with a humble, quiet grace, yet her presence is powerful. She does not feel as thou she…

— Daniel Whyte III

“It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You…

— John Bytheway

Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is…

— J. C. Ryle

There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others.…

— Francois Fenelon

Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them;…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle…

— Alexander Pope

“I'm not modest,' she said last year. 'I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned behavior. But I do pray for humility,…

— Anonymous

“[F]or several thousand years we have been obsessed with a false humility—on the one hand, putting ourselves down as mere creatures" who…

— Alan W. Watts

“Our blessed Saviour, the most spiritual worshipper, prostrated himself in the garden with the greatest lowliness, and offered himself upon the cross…

— William Symington