| "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 Haddon Spurgeon |
| "If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect." »Ted Turner |
| "It ain't the heat, it's the humility." »Lawrence Peter Berra |
| "What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left." »Oscar Levant |
| "Life is a long lesson in humility." »James M. Barrie |
| "humility is no substitute for a good personality." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility." »John Ruskin |
| "Always accept good fortune with grace and humility." »Mark L. Mika |
| "humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it." »E. D. Hulse |
| "Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility." »Johathan Edwards |
| "In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility." »William Shakespeare |
| "God, give me courage to do what I can, humility to admit what I can't, and wisdom to know the difference." »B. J. Gupta |
| "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 |
| "Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters." »Jean Baptiste Lacordaire |
| "If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed." »Edwin Holt Hughes |
| "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 |
| "Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity." »Dr. William Claire Menninger |
| "The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion humility." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "The mission before us as ambassadors is to assure peace among, as it were, the diplomatic corps of fellow ambassadors. Thus we are to walk in lowliness (humility) and meekness, which foster longsuffering and enable us to forbear one another in love." »Stephen Shober |
| "A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood." »William Shakespeare |
| "Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom." »Dee W. Hock |
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