Humility Quotes

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.
- Charles Hadden Spurgeon

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

show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person
- Nikki Giovanni

God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.
- John Keble

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
- Saadi

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
- Charles Hadden Spurgeon

'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.
- Charles Dickens

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he may.
- Charles Dickens

We are ashamed of everything that is real about us, ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
- Alexander Pope

We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
- Alexander Pope