For fear of what it might do to me, you never paid a compliment, and when other people did, you beat it away from me with a stick. ‘He certainly is looking nice and grown up.’ He’d look a lot nicer if he did something about his skin. ‘That’s wonderful that he got that job.’ […]
Humility - Humble Quotes
Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows.
They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.
It is good, too, that we sometimes suffer opposition, and that men think ill of us and misjudge us, even when we do and mean well. Such things are an aid to humility, and preserve us from pride and vainglory. For we more readily turn to God as our inward witness, when men despise us […]
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Humility and inner peace go hand in hand. The less compelled you are to try to prove yourself to others, the easier it is to feel peaceful inside.
Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.
The meek may inherit the earth, but the earth inherits all of us.
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
Humility is nothing else but the right judgment of ourselves.
