Quotes, aphorisms and phrases about humility, a virtue that allows the individual to recognize within their limits, avoiding any form of pride, pride and overwhelm in the various situations of life.
Quotes about humility
- There can be beauty in both humble and most precious things. (Marcel Proust)
- Humility is the most difficult virtue to conquer; nothing harder to die than the desire to think well about yourself. (Thomas Stearns Eliot)
- Six essential qualities are the keys to success: sincerity, personal honesty, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. (William C. Meninger)
- Only with a child's malice, a philosopher's wisdom and a saint's humility can the world be transcended. (Vasile Ghica)
- Humility makes great men twice honorable. (Benjamin Franklin)
- The humility of things: observe how they arrange themselves quietly where you pose them, modest, silent, obedient. (Raul Aceves)
- The most essential quality when we face difficult commitments, whether in ourselves or in others, is humility. (Selwyn Hughes)
- Blessed are the peaceable who, avoiding malice, pride and hypocrisy, practice compassion, humility and love. (Buddha)
- Excessive pride is a widespread sin, but a man can equally easily frustrate the will of God due to an excess of humility. (Ken Follet)
- Don't curse a failure. It is the ground where humility lives. (Yasmin Mogahed)
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- When you speak half-wise, tell nonsense; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the shrewd, you appear very humble and ask for his advice. (Lord Lytton)
- The sense of sacrifice is the absolute humility necessary to act while knowing that we will not see the results. (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
- Humility does not mean that you value yourself little. It means that you think less of yourself. (Kenneth Blanchard)
- It takes more humility in our moments of success than in those of defeat. In fact, humility is not a vulgar self-contempt: it is the sense of our miserable inability to command events. (John Dewey)
- The meekness and humility of the heart help us not only to take on the weight of others, but also not to weigh on them with our personal views, our judgments, our criticisms or our indifference. (Pope francesco)
- Being able to do without things gives man more power than possessing them. (Heinrich Suso)
- There is only humility that opens up to Christ. As long as there is no recognition of one's insufficiency and the consequent invocation, Christ cannot enter a soul and a world. (Jean Danielou)
- Appeal to a certain degree of humility and indulgence must be made when judging the mechanisms of another person's heart. (Khaled Hosseini)
- Every mastery in this world presupposes both humility before the unattainable as well as discontent with what has been achieved. (Franz Werfel)
- False humility is pure pride. (Blaise Pascal)
- It is contradictory to be a true Christian and not to have humility. (Richard Baxter)
- Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. (Thomas Merton)
- What the world needs are more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. (Oscar Levant)
- The worm, if trampled, wrinkles. It is his wisdom. This reduces the likelihood of being stepped on again. In the language of morality: humility. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- If I had a little humility, I would be perfect. (Ted Turner)
- Humility is the antechamber of all perfections. (Marcel Aymé)
- Humility and charity go hand in hand. One glorifies and the other sanctifies. (Father Pio)
- You can be humble and have the vanity to prove it. You can be vain, but have the humility to admit it. (Andrés Neuman)
- Don't be ashamed to confess that you were wrong. It means nothing more than having more capacity than you had before, to see your mistake; more humility to recognize it; more grace in correcting it. (Jeremiah Seed)
- Modesty protects us from others, humility from ourselves. (Simon May)
Aphorisms on humility
- Always stand firm in humility. (Father Pio)
- The lamp of humility can be so bright that, from behind the screen, it also illuminates pride. (Markku Envall)
- Humility is a virtue; shyness is a disease. (Jim Rohn)
- Humility does not mean thinking that you are worth less than others, nor having little self-esteem. Rather, it means total freedom from thinking about yourself. (William Temple)
- The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility. (Thomas Stearns Eliot)
- Humility is often nothing more than a fake submission that is used to subdue others. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
- Be humble, because the worst thing in this world is of your own pasta; be confident, because the stars are of your own dough. (Velimirovic Nikolaj)
- Life is a long lesson in humility. (James Matthew Barrie)
- Humility, shared experience, is the scale of a young ambition. But, as she reached the last step, she turns her back on the ladder and gazes at the clouds, despising the lowest steps where she has ascended. (William Shakespeare)
- Better to give than to take; but sometimes there may be more humility in receiving than in giving. (Soren Kierkegaard)
- A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest people can enjoy the highest civil, economic and social rights that the largest and most powerful have. (Asa Phlip Randolph)
- During my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found this diet healthy. (Winston S. Churchill)
- It was too simple to wonder when he reached humility. But he knew he had reached her and he knew that this was not unseemly and did not involve the loss of true pride. (Ernest Hemingway)
- Never be proud of the humble. Never be humble with the proud. (Jefferson Davis)
- You are humble, you are patient, you are good, and then you will be noble, you will be rich, you will be respected. (Carlo Goldoni)
- It was pride that turned angels into devils; it is humility that makes men equal to angels. (St. Augustine)
- Pride worries about who is right. Humility cares about what is right. (Ezra Taft Benson)
- A right method to learn humble joy in front of life: watch over the dead. (Mircea Oprea)
- Humility is such a practical virtue that men imagine it should be a vice. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
- True humility does not know that it is humble. If so, it would be proud of the contemplation of such a beautiful virtue. (Martin Luther)
- The simulation of humility is worse than pride. (St. Augustine)
- If pain does not lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering. (Katerina Stoykova Klemer)
- We must let ourselves be transformed by the Holy Spirit so that our proclamation may take place with the word always accompanied by simplicity of life, by charity towards all, especially the little ones and the poor, by humility and detachment from oneself, from holiness of life. (Pope francesco)
- They are proud in humility, proud of the fact that they are not proud. (Robert Burton)
- Doubt who has only great certainties and put faith in those who also have serious doubts, as true wisdom is also in knowing how to recognize one's ignorance, the great Greek philosopher Socrates was a classic example, at the base of whose knowledge was the awareness of knowing that you know nothing. (Xavier Wheel)
- Wear your knowledge like your watch in a private pocket: don't take it out and don't shake it just to show that you have one. (Lord Chersterfield)
- There is no pride that surpasses the pride of the humble. (Ippolito Nievo)
- I believe that the first test for a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubting one's abilities. But some great men have the strange feeling that greatness is not in them, but you go through them. And they see something divine in every other man. (John Ruskin)
- If you make concrete projects, if you cultivate your ambitions, if you work with humility, if you sharpen your wits, dreams become reality. (Banana Yoshimoto)
- Happiness is a door that opens from the inside: to open it you must humbly take a step back. (Soren Aabye Kierkegaard)
Phrases about humility
- Although you can turn between pleasures and buildings, always be humble, there is no place as your own home. (John Howard Payne)
- Humility, the low, sweet root, from which all celestial virtues originate. (San Tommaso Moro)
- Almost any difficulty will be overcome in the face of honesty. When I'm honest, I never feel stupid. And when I'm honest I'm automatically humble. (Hugh Prather)
- The highest branch, the top, the one that never reaches: humility. (Ramón Andrés)
- I do not know absolute truths, but I am humble in the face of my ignorance: and in this is my honor and my reward. (Khalil Gibran)
- Experience has little to teach if it is not lived with humility. (Michelangelo)
- The humble person turns off pride, but 'the proud cannot harm the humble person. (Santa Caterina Da Siena)
- Do you want to be a big guy? Start with being small. Do you want to erect a building that reaches to the sky? Build the foundations of humility first. (St. Augustine)
- The true humble person is never sure of his virtues: in an ordinary way, those he discovers in others seem more solid and deeper than his. (Santa Teresa Di Lisieux)
- Humility is a virtue that everyone preaches, but that nobody practices. (John Selden)
- As we age we learn humility. You learn that if you are not born humble, life forces you to be humble. (Mike Tyson)
- Even on the highest throne in the world we are always sitting on our ass. (Michel De Montaigne)
- Secret meditation is a mirror for the mind, a lamp for consciousness; it sweetens the heart, removes sadness and you receive true humility. (Isaiah)
- In fact, who is older, who is at the table or who is serving? Is it not he who is at the table? Yet I am among you as the one who serves. (From Luke's Gospel)
- People are proud only when they have something to lose, and humble when they have something to gain. (Henry James)
- We are all apprentices in a profession where you never become a master. (Ernest Hemingway)
- Humility is nothing but truth. "What have we got that hasn't been given to us? If we have received everything, what good remains in us of ours? When we get convinced of this, we will no longer raise our heads out of pride. If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor blame, because you know what you are. (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
- Being humble towards superiors is a duty, towards equals it is courtesy, towards inferiors it is nobility, towards everyone it is salvation. (Bruce Lee)
- Experience has little to teach if it is not lived with humility. (Michelangelo)
- I am aware of the state of my ignorance and ready to learn from anyone regardless of his qualification. (Isaac Asimov)
- A man must be old enough to admit his mistakes, intelligent enough to profit, and strong enough to correct them. (John C. Maxwell)
- Humility and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty. (Johann Winckelmann)
- Be humble of heart, grave in words, prudent in your resolutions. (Father Pio)
- Perhaps it would be good if we all remembered that, while we differ in the few, little things we know, in the face of our infinite ignorance we are all the same. (Karl Popper)
- Humility is to stop protecting your beliefs, stop affirming your existence at any time, stop showing those who don't care about you that you deserve to be alive. (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
- Pride worries about who is right. Humility cares about what is right. (Ezra Taft Benson)
- Gratitude, like certain flowers, does not grow at high altitudes and revives better in the good land of humility. (José Martì)
- If I look at the works of the masters I see what they have done; if I look at my barrels, I see what I should have done. (Goethe)
- Very early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and I never had a reason to change. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
- Blushing is the color of virtue. (Diogenes)
- Man in his arrogance believes himself to be a great work, worthy of divine creation. More humble, I think it is more correct to consider him descended from animals. (Charles Robert Darwin)
- These are the ways we can practice humility: talk as little about ourselves as possible; refuse to meddle in other people's affairs; avoid curiosity; cheerfully accept contradictions and corrections; pass over the mistakes of others; accept insults and offenses; agree to be despised, forgotten and unloved; do not try to be particularly favorite and admired; respond with kindness even if provoked; never trample anyone's dignity; give in to the discussion, even if you are right; always choose what is more difficult. (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
- It was pride that turned angels into devils; it is humility that makes men equal to angels. (St. Augustine)
