Humility Quotes Slideshow

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'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.
-Charles Dickens

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
-Charles Hadden Spurgeon

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.
-Charles Hadden Spurgeon

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.
-James Montgomery

Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility.
-James Montgomery

We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
-Alexander Pope

He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility! And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
-Thomas Moore

I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.
-Alexander Pope

show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person
-Nikki Giovanni

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
-Philip James Bailey

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-Alexander Pope

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
-George Bernard Shaw

Humble things become the humble.
-Horatius Flaccus

When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.
-Anonymous Author

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
-Saadi

Give place to your betters.
-Terence Afer

God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.
-John Keble

Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
-Helen Nielsen

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he may.
-Charles Dickens

One may be humble out of pride.
-Michael Eyquen de Montaigne

We are ashamed of everything that is real about us, ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
-Alexander Pope

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