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QUOTES ON HUMILITY


1.      “A great man is always willing to be little” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

2.      “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less” – C.S. Lewis

3.      “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 Ghandi

4.      “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom” – Michel de Montaigne

5.      “As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.  A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you” – C.S. Lewis

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

7.      “Life is a long lesson in humility” – J.M. barrie

8.      “Every person that you meet knows something that you don’t; learn from them.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

9.      “The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient” – St. Augustine

10.  “Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself” – Charles H. Spurgeon

11.  “After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser” – Benjamin Franklin

12.  “Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life” – George Arliss

13.  “Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom” – William Penn

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

15.  “In a humble state, you learn better. I can’t find anything else very exciting about humility, but at least there’s that” – John Dooner

16.  “We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility” – Rabindranath Tagore

17.  “When we become aware of our humility, we’ve lost it” – Anonymous

18.  “Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them” John J. McCloy

19.  “Our ego hinders our ability to influence more than  anything else under our control” – Michael McKinney

20.  “Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful” – Ann Landers

21.  “Generosity is taking more than you can and pride is taking less than you need” - Khalil Gibran

22.  “Remembering I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, a pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important – Steve Jobs

23.  “If you are right, take the humble side – you will help the other fellow. If you are wrong, take the humble side – and you will help yourself.” – Anonymous

24.  “Before destruction, the heart of man is haughty and before honour is humility” – Proverbs 18:12

25.  “It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels” – Augustine of Hippo
“The graveyards are full of indispensable men”  - Charles De Gaulle

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