The first of all other virtues – for other people.
Humility - Humble Quotes
Be humble or you’ll stumble.
The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.
Whoever is humble to men for God’s sake, may God exalt his eminence.
Without humility there can be no humanity.
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.’ […]
