The meek may inherit the earth, but the earth inherits all of us.
Humility - Humble Quotes
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
Humility is nothing else but the right judgment of ourselves.
Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. Attributed
I am no more humble than my talents require.
Never be haughty to the humble. Never be humble to the haughty.
The first step towards humility – to realize that one is proud.
“I am well aware that I am the humblest person going,” said Uriah Heep, modestly; “let the other be where he may. My mother is likewise a very humble person. We live in a humble abode, Master Copperfield, but have much to be thankful for.”
Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility. Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying […]
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
