Able Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

— Vanna Bonta

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is…

— Samuel Richardson

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

— Joyce Meyer

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in…

— Dag Hammarskjold

Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take…

— Mike Aquilina

Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.

— Anonymous

Humility is a fertile soil where spirituality grows and produces the fruit of inspiration to know what to do. It gives access to divine…

— Richard G. Scott

Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is…

— Superman

Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is…

— Matthieu Ricard