17 Great Quotes About Humility

Everyone needs a good dose of humility now and then. Is you haven't experienced your's yet, maybe these quotes will had you in the right direction! From some of the greatest minds throughout our history, here are seventeen great quotes about humility...

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

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
--Kanye West

Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
--Demades

It well becomes a young man to be modest.
--Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Life is a long lesson in humility.
--James M. Barrie

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
--Ted Turner

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.
--Edith Sitwell

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
--Jules Renard

The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.
--Jerry Van Amerongen

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
--Lois McMaster Bujold

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
--Confucius

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
--Mark Twain

I am no more humble than my talents require.
--Oscar Levant

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
--Madam Guizot

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
--Confucius

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
--William Shakespeare

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