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30 Quotes of Humility
Humility: a modest or low view of one’s own importance; humbleness
As you continue on your path towards living a happy life full of gratitude and love, use these quotes in your daily practice.
1. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway
2. “The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne
4. “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― Rick Warren
5. “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.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
6. “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
― Epictetus
7. “It is not for me to judge another man’s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
― Herman Hesse
8. “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
― Winston S. Churchill
9. “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
― Abraham Lincoln
10. “To learn which questions are unanswerable, andnot to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
11. “A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
― Albert Einstein
12. “I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”
― Lao Tzu
13. “Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!”
― C. JoyBell C.
14. “…talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”
― Patrick Süskind
15. “Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don’t.”
― Tom Hiddleston
16. “Every person that you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
17. “In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”
― Winston Spencer-Churchill
18. “A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Alexander Pope
19. “Life is a long lesson in humility.”
― J.M. Barrie
20. “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
― Ernest Hemingway
21. “True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.”
― Martin Luther
22. “I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don’t even need or want to look ‘intelligent’ anymore.”
― Criss Jami
23. “Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.”
― Shannon L. Alder
24. “The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”
― Aaron Lauritsen
25. “Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.”
― Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
26. “Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a
sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”
― Oscar Wilde
27. “Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.”
― St. Vincent de Paul
28. “There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
29. “Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.”
― Madeleine L’Engle
30. “Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.”
― Yasmin Mogahed
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