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Humility Quotes

"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

Humility, Wisdom, Life, World

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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

Humility, Wisdom, Nothing

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"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

Humility, Clouds, First, Will

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"Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger."

Abraham Cahan, Lithuanian Author

Humility, Anger, Control

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"One who is thankful for a slice of bread is more blessedthan one who is ungrateful for a loaf."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Humility, Thankful, Bread, Blessed, Gratitude

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"I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Humility, First, Man

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"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

Humility, Knowledge, Meaning, Nothing

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"Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions."

Bodhidharma, Indian Leader

Humility, Self, Worship

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"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left."

Oscar Levant, American Composer

Humility, Needs, World

"Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility."

James Montgomery, British Poet

"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."

Mark Twain, American Author

Humility, Awards

"Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety."

Aesop, Greek Author

Humility, Cause, Safety

"If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest."

Jerome K. Jerome, English Author

"Be simple, stay humble, care with love, hug with kindness."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Humility, Simple, Humble, Care, Kindness

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Humility, Doubt

"Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Humility, Merit

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Humility, People, Reason, President

"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

Humility, Greatness

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."

Rick Warren, American Writer

Humility, Thinking

"Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Humility, Pride

"Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot."

Thomas Moore, Irish Poet

"Be not proud of your intelligence. Be simple, wise, and humble."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Humility, Intelligence, Proud, Simple, Wise

"They may hail you like an Angel. They may claim you are the world's prince of princes. They may lift you with praise many kilometers above sea level. They may say you are the best of the bests. ....But always remember "you are a human being" with flesh and blood."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Humility, Praise, Success, Leadership

"When you have nothing, be hopeful; when you have little, be grateful; when you have much, be sensible; when you have everything, be humble."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Humility, Nothing, Hopeful, Little, Grateful

"Do not seek popularity or self-affirmation; just show people God's love and mercy, and help them to prosper and succeed. Simply serve God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Humility, Service, Love, God

"Never try to prove that you are right or superior. Let the Lord Himself fight for you."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Humility, Superiority, God�s Justice, Patience

"Put off the fire of pride and save your life from burning with flames of failure. Pride is the reason why many dreams only survive as ashes today. Learn the lesson, hung on to humility!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Humility, Pride, Failure, Success

"True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be."

Ralph W. Sockman, American Leader

Humility, Respect, Self, Selfrespect

"I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause."

Willie Stargell, American Athlete

Humility, Applause

"You don't have to boast for work that speaks for itself."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Humility, Boast, Work, Speaks

"The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be."

John Templeton, American Businessman

Humility, Day, Divinity, Open, Talk

"It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity."

John Templeton, American Businessman

Humility, Divinity, Self

"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Humility, Knowledge, Learning

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Humility, Soul, Benefits, Giving

"Humility and brokenness before God is the key to making your body the dwelling place of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Humility, Brokenness, God, Dwelling

"I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Humility, Forget

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

Humility, Man, Nothing

"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

Humility, Life, God, Soul, End

"If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect."

Ted Turner, American Businessman

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Humility, God, Man, Mankind, Study

"Even God has a need."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Humility, God, Need, Purpose, Dependency

"Be humble and set the balls of your dreams rolling till God himself decides what next! As for "pride", allow it to go as a lone ranger!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Humility, Dreams, Faith, Pride

"I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want."

William Tecumseh Sherman, American Soldier

Humility, Rank, Rivalry, Want, Will

"The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it."

Mignon McLaughlin, American Journalist

Humility, Man, Will

"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Humility, Diet, Life, Words

"With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive."

Oliver Goldsmith, Irish Poet

"The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Humility, Limitations, Man, Perfection

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Humility, People, President

"If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Humility, Pride

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