“There was something immodest about her modesty: it announced itself.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 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
A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
Asking for help doesn't mean your doctor is incompetent; rather, it should increase your faith in his or her abilities and humility. — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
“The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.” — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often… — Kathryn Kuhlman Copy Share Image
“Any doctrinal or personal conflict we have with another must be dominated by the Biblical characteristics of love, mercy, and humility. To… — Wendy Alsup Copy Share Image
Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Does what happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness?” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;--that her ornaments were such as might be… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“A person with param vinaya [absolute humility] is considered an honorable and respectable person [abroodaar]. Nowadays where is the honor and respect… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If one introspects and says with humility of heart: "I do not yet know the truth, but I have to find it"… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Gratitude, generosity and humility are inherent characteristics of one who is present. When you awaken, you will realize that everyone and everything… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Glory is a often praised thing because of the way it makes people feel, but Glory is for the weak hearted and… — Kevan Langley Copy Share Image
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I discovered another analogy in the legacy of Prophet Muhammad that immediately clicked with me: that the angels put down their wings… — Sahar El-Nadi Copy Share Image
Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries,… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status? Do you… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
I'm really loud, and I'm really amazing, and really talented. And really humble. — Bob the Drag Queen Copy Share Image
Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
“Great leaders are the first to say, “I was wrong. Let’s make a change.” — Beth Ramsay Copy Share Image
I am not ashamed of my past; I am not ashamed of my humble beginnings. — Madam C. J. Walker Copy Share Image
“Humility is patient because it is neither past nor forward seeking — it is content.” — Bryant McGill 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
Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Humility is simply believing and accepting what God says about us, and God says that we are anything but worthless. — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
“Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.” — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Unrestrained zeal to make the world better could make it worse. Promoting democracy must be undertaken with humility, care, and wisdom. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
Every man thinks himself to be humble, until a truly humbling experience humbles him. — Andrew Cervantes Copy Share Image
I think people would be surprised by his [Alessandro Michele] humility. — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all. — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image