A man who is at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom.


A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.


A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.


Be it ever so humble, there's no opinion like one's own.


Before honor is humility.


Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. [Philippians 2:3]


Don't be humble, you're not that great.


He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.


Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.


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


Humility is no substitute for a good personality.


Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.


Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.


Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.


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.


Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.


I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.


I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.


If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.


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.

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