Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humble yourself and people will respect you more for that then anything you brag about. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Goodness, in their opinion, was not a virtue but merely spinelessness and fear disguised as humility.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars… — Mary Gardiner Brainard Copy Share Image
It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Never look down on someone because God himself does not do so. No matter what defines the status, nationality or gender of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Milwaukee, Rebecca. Order and sobriety and a devotion to cleanliness that scours out the soul. Decent people doing their best to live… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I'm very sceptical about the prospects for 'big' environmental causes - 'saving the planet', halving the world's population, ending the exploitation of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I think with great affection and deep gratitude of my venerable predecessor, Benedict XVI, who during these years of his pontificate has… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“God had spoken to His people through His Word. It had humbled them in their sins, but it had lifted them up… — Colin S. Smith Copy Share Image
“What is childlike humility? It's that precious, fleeting time before we have accumulated enough pride or position to care what other people… — Todd Burpo; Lynn Vincent Copy Share Image
This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
