Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael J. Fox

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

Madonna Ciccone

I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.

Louis Kronenberger

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Michel de Montaigne

One may be humble out of pride.

Michel de Montaigne

All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

Francis Bacon

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Vance Havner

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

W. S. Gilbert

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

Saint Francis de Sales

True humility scarcely ever utters words of humility.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

James Russell Lowell

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

Friedrich Schiller

Modest humility is beauty's crown.

Naomi Shihab Nye

When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.

Mitt Romney

I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

Mitt Romney

Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

Prem Rawat

You should love one another and behave lovingly because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one another with love and humility. Love is the essence.

Joseph Brodsky

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.

Oscar Wilde

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Paul Fussell

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

Ken Blanchard

Take yourself seriously but take yourself lightly.

Pope Benedict XVI

The story of Mary of Magdalene reminds us all of a fundamental truth...A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience of human weakness, has had the humility to ask for his help, has been healed by him and has set out following closely after him, becoming a witness of the power of his merciful love that is stronger than sin and death.

Paulo Coelho

If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.

Naveen Jain

If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.

Mother Teresa

Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity to peace

Mother Teresa

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

Mother Teresa

Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility

Mother Teresa

We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

Monica Baldwin

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

Mira Nair

Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.

Pearl S. Buck

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

Peter V. Brett

There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.

Ted Allen

I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.