Humility Quotes, Modesty Sayings
You do not become smarter by blowing your own horn. You become smarter by being humble.
- Dr T.P.Chia
The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
- Mignon McLaughlin
In life humility is not a handicap, arrogance is not a strength.
- Dr T.P.Chia
Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.
- Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Even great men bow before the sun; it melts hubris into humility.
- Dejan Stojanovic
Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility.
- Anthony Liccione
We are all something, but none of us are everything.
- Blaise Pascal
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren
The moment you say ‘I know everything’ is the end of your growth.
- Sharon Lee
One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
- Madeleine L’Engle
Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.
- David Richo
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
- Madeleine L’Engle
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
- Fran Lebowitz
I am no more humble than my talents require.
- Oscar Levant
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- J.M. Barrie
Humility reminds you that in order to receive value, you must create value in equal measure.
- Ralph Marston
In reality, humility means nothing other than complete honesty about yourself.
- William Countryman
A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
- Albert Einstein
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
- C.S. Lewis