I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“You have to descend to the valley of humility to climb to heights of character.” — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of… — Joseph Williams Copy Share Image
Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions. — John Cassian Copy Share Image
My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility. — Kelly Reilly Copy Share Image
“Our genetic dispositions have a basis here- dispositions to dominate and to herd together for the sake of survival, to wander alone… — Richard Leo Copy Share Image
“Until a humility that rests in nothing less than the end and death of self, and which gives up all the honor… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“Then you do not belong here. Death holds no sweetness in this house. We are not warriors, nor soldiers, nor swaggering bravos… — George R.R. Martin 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
The actor that taught me the most was Bernie Mac. I did my first big budget studio film with he and Angela… — Brian J. White Copy Share Image
Without the necessary humility to worship, I subconsciously desired to be worshiped, not in a crazy Napoleanic manner, but like a modern-day… — Tarek Saab Copy Share Image
Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will. — Lactantius Copy Share Image
“I've never been good with asking for help; it seems risky, but at some point when things are really dicey, your stubbornness… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
“An essential virtue is humility. … The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You matter to somebody in the world & no matter what you do that somebody will always be proud of you so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
