Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
If you're humble in defeat, everyone may still kick you, but they won't kick you as much. — Forrest Griffin Copy Share Image
“There was something immodest about her modesty: it announced itself.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
You've got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time, when you find yourself breathing… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
He has made peace with himself, as Isaac the Syrian says, and heaven and earth have made peace with him. He is… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
The problem with thinking that you are the absolute best, is that it leaves no room for you to become any better… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness;… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity… — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . .… — Hyrum W. Smith Copy Share Image
Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say… — B. Alan Wallace Copy Share Image
“We should get into the way of appearing lively in religion, more by being lively in the service of God and our… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others… — Francois Magendie Copy Share Image
I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“When I look back upon my own Christian experience, or at the church of Christ as a whole, I am amazed at… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
I know for me, going back the person I've bad-mouthed or lied to is absolutely humiliating! But isn't it interesting that "humiliating"… — Chip Ingram Copy Share Image
No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
Those talking lot about their hard work, don't actually do anything, and those who really work, have no time to boost about… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
If you wish to cultivate humility, then you should associate with those who are humble. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man. — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta. — William Osler Copy Share Image
I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning. — Madam C. J. Walker Copy Share Image
God calls us to be humble... Humility is a great defense against humiliation. — Rev Run Copy Share Image
Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men. — Ernst Moritz Arndt Copy Share Image
“A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.” — Newton Gatambia Copy Share Image
Modesty and faith are both companions: when one is taken away the other is taken. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
