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The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Thomas S. Monson

Humility is attentive patience.

Simone Weil

Humility is truth.

Desiderius Erasmus

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

William Penn

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Oliver Herford

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

Saint Ambrose

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

Harvey Mackay

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Thomas Merton

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

Francis of Assisi

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

Saint Ignatius

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Henry Ward Beecher

True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

Alphonsus Liguori

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Hugh Laurie

To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.

L. Lionel Kendrick

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

John Ruskin

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Abu Bakr

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Arthur Helps

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.

Anand Mahindra

Modesty is my best quality.

Jack Benny

A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Thomas a Kempis

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

Michael Leunig

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

Laura Linney

I think that humility is key to succeed and conquer your dreams.

Thiago Silva

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

James M. Barrie

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

John Wooden

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Paul Cezanne

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

George Santayana

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

Muhammad Ali

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Jim Yong Kim

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

Ezra Taft Benson

The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.

John Constable

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

Bodhidharma

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

Yousef Munayyer

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Thomas a Kempis

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

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

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Blaise Pascal

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Charles Stanley

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

Confucius

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

With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

Charles Simeon

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

Bob Newhart

Obedience is a strong virtue, capable of making me master of my emotions by giving me more strength to conquer my pride as I submit to those above me out of respect for their God-given authority and those below me out of love.

Mother Angelica

People who are in jobs are striving to gain the most they can before they die through financial means, through their flesh, the lust of their flesh and man's drive for power. But as believers we are to be the opposite. We are to be humble, not prideful. We are to think of things that are true, whatever is noble, and whatever is worthy.

Jeremy Camp

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Fran Lebowitz

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

Richard Louv

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Johannes Tauler

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

John Ortberg

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Abraham Cahan

The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.

Paul Washer

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

Harold Warner

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Izaak Walton

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

William Gurnall

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

Ezra Taft Benson