I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.' — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any… — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility.… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. — William Shakespeare 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
No one will learn anything at all, unless one first will learn humility. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but… — John Ruskin 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
