Humility Quotes, Modesty Sayings

You do not become smarter by blowing your own horn. You become smarter by being humble.
– Dr T.P.Chia

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Fear is a spirit that keeps you sitting, Boldness helps you to stand. Humility reminds us when to sit again, Pride never sits only stands.

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Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.
– Terri Guillemets

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A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.
– Lawrence G. Lovasik

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Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others.
– Gordon B. Hinckley

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Humbleness is productive, narcissism is destructive.
– Dr T.P.Chia

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Humbleness promotes respect and good will. Arrogance invites disrespect and ill will.
– Dr T.P.Chia

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The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
– Mignon McLaughlin

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In life humility is not a handicap, arrogance is not a strength.
– Dr T.P.Chia

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Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility.
– Anthony Liccione

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A contented man is never poor. A humble man is never arrogant.
– Dr T.P.Chia

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Fat is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her. I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me.

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That it is a bad thing to be tortured and starved, humiliated or hurt, is not an opinion; it is a fact. That it is better for people to be loved and attended to, rather than hated or neglected, is again a plain fact, not a matter of opinion.
– G. J. Warnock

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Humbleness is good sense and wisdom. Modesty invites encouragement and support.
– Dr T.P.Chia

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You can not have humbleness in the presence of arrogance.

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We are all something, but none of us are everything.
– Blaise Pascal

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Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
– Ezra Taft Benson

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Do not mistake humility for stupidity.

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Hard work, Commitment & Humility goes a long way in shaping our lives.

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Humility stands wise while ego stumbles with pride.

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A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
– Albert Einstein

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

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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
– T.S. Eliot

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Being humble takes more courage than hauling arrogance.
– Desmond Fouche

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A good, meaningful life doesn’t just happen. It is the product of humility, sacrifice and hard work.
– Dr T.P.Chia

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An inferiority complex is when the ego is frustrated; whereas, humility is when the ego is rejected.
– Radhanath Swami

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The moment you say ‘I know everything’ is the end of your growth.
– Sharon Lee

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Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.
– St. Vincent de Paul

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One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.
– Sri Chinmoy

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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
– Fran Lebowitz

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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
– Winston Churchill

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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

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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
– Rick Warren

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Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.
– Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

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I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

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Early in my career…I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

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Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others…By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
– Gordon B. Hinckley

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Humble people don’t get offended easily.
– Radhanath Swami

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Anything was better than nothing. Half- full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.
– Becca Fitzpatrick

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Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.
– Vanna Bonta

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If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant.
– Ibn Ata Allah

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Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don’t use others! Don’t behave like a king, don’t behave like a queen! Be humble!
– Mehmet Murat ildan

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It is the desire for success that prevents humility; and without humility how can there be understanding?
– Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.
– Sidney Sheldon

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Humble is such a lonely word.
-KakSri

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With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
– Ezra Taft Benson

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
– Voltaire

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Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
– William Safire

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Life is a long lesson in humility.
– James Matthew Barrie

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Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.
– William Temple

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