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.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.