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Humility Quotes

Among the many characters of the individuals, humility is the most admirable and most virtuous trait. With modesty, patience and respect, humility is a quality that lets you win most of the situations with ease and honor. Acting as a meta-virtue, humility transcends all the borders of principles and epitomizes itself as the supreme commander of human and moral values. Here are some famous humbleness quotations and sayings that display the greatness and importance of humility in day-to-day life.

Victory and glory or misery and humiliation.
Success Victory Fame Glory
Osama bin Laden

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Life is a long lesson in humility.
Life
James M. Barrie

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Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.
Ability Doubt
Charlie Sheen

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Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.
John Roberts

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An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.
Anna Kendrick

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Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.
Good Forgiveness
Dick Van Dyke

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Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
Good
Marvin Olasky

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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Leadership Necessity Opinion Order
Thomas Jefferson

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I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.
Death Life Opinion Unpleasantness
Osama bin Laden

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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Ability Achievement Advice Being Yourself
Theodore Roosevelt

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

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Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.
Life Meaningful Attitude Body
Terri Guillemets

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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
Opinion Peace Compassion Silence
Malcolm X

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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Meaningful Initial Stage Character Principles
Thomas Moore

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

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Leadership Life Advice Order
Thomas Paine

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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Originality Pride Reality Fake
Thomas Merton

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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Desire Greatness
Saint Augustine

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The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
Mignon McLaughlin

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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
Affinity Guts Perfection Celebrities
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Virtues Soul
Saint Augustine

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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
Greatness
John Ruskin

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Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.
Nothing
Chris Evans

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Humility is attentive patience.
Patience
Simone Weil

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I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.
Good Time
George Clooney

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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Nothing Genius
Simone Weil

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It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
Lawrence Peter Berra

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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
Confucius

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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
Margaret Mead

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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Greatness
Rabindranath Tagore

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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
Heart
Saint Augustine

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

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I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.
Strength
Robert Downey Jr.

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Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.
Good
Michael J. Fox

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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
Children
Val Kilmer

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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
Courage Grace Religion
George Santayana

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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
Good Kismet Youth
Joseph Addison

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Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
Paulo Coelho

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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Nothing Power
Simone Weil

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