Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
“In 1969 I published a small book on Humility. It was a pioneering work which has not, to my knowledge, been superceded.” — Lord Longford Copy Share Image
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“People need to stand up for their wrongs, as they stand up for their rights.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons. — Theognis of Megara Copy Share Image
The more humble, needy, and subdued you are before Allah, the closer you will be to Him. — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
“There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often… — Kathryn Kuhlman Copy Share Image
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.” — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Any doctrinal or personal conflict we have with another must be dominated by the Biblical characteristics of love, mercy, and humility. To… — Wendy Alsup Copy Share Image
Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
“We are told that "the meek shall inherit the earth." It follows that the meek are chosen of God. I shall try… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
Mary, my dearest Mother, give me your heart so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, your heart so full of love and humility,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I felt a combination of happiness and humility [ to People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People ]. At the same time there's… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image