Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Too humble is half proud.
Too much humility is pride.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.
When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.
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 in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
Without humility there can be no humanity.
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