Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.

Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

He who wants to learn true humility should reflect upon the Passion of Jesus. (267)

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

It is a maxim that will endure: To truly know the living God, this begets humility.

God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.

If somebody praises us and if we have any humility we will feel totally like a fool.

What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.

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

Humility is not a part of devotional service, it is the heart of devotional service.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

The student must have a very humble state of mind and also must be very inquisitive.

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

Follow diligently the Way in your own heart, but make no display of it to the world.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

Recite your Rosary with faith, with humility, with confidence, and with perseverance.

Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

You always have to measure your desires and goals against your ego and your humility.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

To be part of the creation, I must act humbly. I'll take that over a goddess any day!

Connecting with people who are able to maintain a sense of humility is really useful.

We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Rush Limbaugh advocating for objectivity is like Donald Trump advocating for humility.

Bhakti and Humility cannot be separated like sweetness cannot be separated from sweet.

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