I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
Samuel Butler – Humility
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
Seneca – Humility
To have a thing is little, if you’re not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it.
Charles Neaves – Humility
Those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified him, but have glorified themselves.
Blaise Pascal – Humility
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius – Humility
One that does not think too highly of himself is more than he thinks.
Goethe – Humility
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin – Humility
There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.
Henri-Frederic Amiel – Humility
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Benjamin Franklin – Humility
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
Martin Luther – Humility
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Sigmund Freud – Humility
You shouldn’t gloat about anything you’ve done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do.
David Packard – Humility
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
Nicholai Velimirovic – Humility
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco – Humility
He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking.
