Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually the most ambitious and envious.
– Baruch Spinoza
In reality, humility means nothing other than complete honesty about yourself.
– William Countryman
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
– Rabbi Tarfon
– Barack Obama
– Dag Hammarskjold
Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
– Confucius
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
– Keshavan Nair
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
– Blaise Pascal
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
– Alexander Pope
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
– Rachel Carson
– William Wordsworth
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
– Abraham Lincoln
Nobody has ever expected me to be president. In my poor, lean lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting.
– Abraham Lincoln
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
– Albert Einstein
I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
– Helen Keller
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
– Mohandas K. Gandhi