Humility Quotes

• I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

• In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

• The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.

• If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you.

• I am no more humble than my talents require.

• Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

• Life is a long lesson in humility.

• Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

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

• The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

• He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

• The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

• Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

• It well becomes a young man to be modest.

• Modesty is the citadel of beauty.

• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

• You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

• You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

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