It well becomes a young man to be modest. —Titus Maccius Plautus More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. —Madam Guizot More about this quote Tags: truth knowledge humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. —Lois McMaster Bujold More about this quote Tags: humility goodness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great? —Kanye West More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. —Jules Renard More about this quote Tags: humility pride Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden. —Jerry Van Amerongen More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Humility is no substitute for a good personality. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. —Edith Sitwell More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Modesty is the citadel of beauty. —Demades More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: humility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope. —William Walsh More about this quote Tags: hope Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Tags: hope Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair. —Thomas Hobbes More about this quote Tags: hope Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email