HUMILITY

Related Subjects: Inferiority, Meekness, Modesty, Resignation, Self-Knowledge, Submission, Timidity

1. Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.—Bible, Matthew 23:12
   

2. God knows, I'm no the thing I should be,
   Nor am I even the thing I could be.—BURNS, To the Reverend John M'Math
   

3. I'm a very 'umble person.—DICKENS, David Copperfield
   

4. I ate umble pie with an appetite.—DICKENS, David Copperfield
   

5. At moments she discovered she was grotesquely wrong, and then she treated herself to a week of passionate humility.—HENRY JAMES, The Portrait of a Lady
   

6. One may be humble out of pride.—MONTAIGNE, Essays
   

7. Humility, that low, sweet root From which all heavenly virtues shoot.—THOMAS MOORE, The Loves of the Angels
   

8. Humility often gains more than pride.—Proverb
   

9. It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.—Proverb
   

10. The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

11. Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.—JOHN SELDEN, Table Talk
    

12. One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man.—SPINOZA