Humility Quote by George Gissing

“The paltry character of most men compels the few who have any merit or genius to behave as though they did not know their…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The Don always taught that when a man was generous, he must show the generosity as personal.”

— Mario Puzo

“Modesty... consists in pretending not to think better of ourselves and our belongings than of the man we are speaking to and his belongings.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Modesty is for the weak.”

— Ralph L. Angelo Jr

“You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”

— Abraham Lincoln Artman Himmelwright

“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own…

— Bertrand Russell

“Modesty means that you insist that men delight in you at the right time and in the right place and in the right way…

— Andrew M. Greeley

“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon the organ…

— G.K. Chesterton

Modesty needs to come from the heart.

— David K. Bernard

“An act of generosity rarely ends a man's responsibilities toward another; it tends instead to begin them.”

— Amor Towles

“Men will not give up their privilege of helplessness without a struggle.”

— Crystal Eastman

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their…

— William Shenstone