“Recently in mixed company...I ventured to make the claim ( not without some show of humility and modesty ) that I was… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
As entrepreneurs, we must continue to ask ourselves 'What's next?' It takes humility to realize that we don't know everything, not to… — Cher Wang Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is equally underrated and under-practiced. It too requires humility to say “thank you.” Saying “thank you” means one is dependent on… — Stephen J. Nichols Copy Share Image
“I always prefer to start from a place of reality, not from my own projections and preferences. Humility is clearer-eyed than ego—and… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering,… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Father Ratti had often explained, in Religious Knowledge class, that true humility did not mean a sense of worthlessness or the kind… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Witness. The moralist believes in proselytizing, because “we are right, and they are wrong.” Such an approach is almost always offensive. The… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Standing out there in th dark, I felt many different things. One of them was pride in my fellow Americans, ordinary people… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“So let’s review: Choosing to be unoffendable means choosing to be humble. Not only that, the practice teaches humility. Once you’ve decided… — Brant Hansen Copy Share Image
“Something interesting happens when we approach situations from a perspective of humility—it opens us up to possibilities as we choose open-mindedness and… — Bruna Martinuzzi Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“If you can grasp those two truths—you are made in His image and dependent on Him—you will discover a great dignity and… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
“Moksha (the ultimate liberation) is through absolute humility. One is not expected to perform any action; one needs to come into absolute… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I can be strong I can be meek I can be gentle I can be tough I can explode when I had… — Lexi Tango Copy Share Image
Humility feels that there is someone, somewhere who can do anything I can do better - except one thing: no one can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Humility is that simple, inner life of real greatness, which is indifferent to magnificence, and, surrounded by it all, lives far away… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“The meek already inherit the earth in this life, in this way. A man who is truly meek is a man who… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
“To show humility [vinaya] towards disrespect [avinaya] is strong humility [gaadha vinaya). To maintain humility even when a disrespectful person slaps you;… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
I think that listening to music or creating music is a spiritual undertaking, so the process of creating music, you know, involves… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“...the first step to becoming meek is to improve day by day. Each day we need to try to be better than… — Ulisses Soares Copy Share Image
Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Humility, or poverty of spirit, is not a matter of thinking low thoughts about ourselves. It is not a matter of groveling… — John W. Miller Copy Share Image
Never let the things you want, make you forget the things you have. If you are truly rich, count the number things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Miscellaneous factors to be considered by the meek are water snakes, all types of insects resting on the pads, leeches, and a… — Charles W. Kane Copy Share Image
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary. In all three cases it is better to show your humility… — David Hayden Copy Share Image