Humility 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 merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has…

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

— Anonymous

Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his…

— John Selden

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Vanna Bonta

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he…

— Prince Charles

Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

— Thomas Brooks

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

— Charles Spurgeon

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 the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest,…

— Lajos Kossuth