Humility - Humble Quotes

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people’s characters.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I ever met.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

The first of all other virtues – for other people.

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.