ROBERT J.R. GRAHAM: Thoughts on Humility

~ We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ~

Rabindranath Tagore

~ Humility makes great men twice honorable ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues. ~

Confucius

~ Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement. ~

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie

~ Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. ~

Rick Warren

~ The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth. ~

Ken Auletta

~ Even if you be otherwise perfect, you fail without humility. ~

The Talmud

~ Humility is like underwear; essential,but indecent if it shows. ~

Helen Nielsen

~ In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. ~

William Shakespeare

~ Humility is no substitute for a good personality. ~

Fran Lebowitz

~ Life is a long lesson in humility. ~

James M. Barrie

~ Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker. ~

Martin Farquhar Tupper

~ Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ 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

~ I have sounded the very base-string of humility. ~

William Shakespeare

~ The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility. ~

Samuel Richardson

~ I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility. ~

John Ruskin

~ In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ 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 David Eisenhower

~ Humility and resignation are our prime virtues. ~

John Dryden

~ He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility. ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ True humility–the basis of the Christian system–is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. ~

Edmund Burke

~ Without humility there can be no humanity. ~

John Buchan

~ Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility. ~

Henry Ward Beecher

~ Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ~

George Arliss

~ 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 Hadden Spurgeon

~ Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. ~

Thomas Moore

~ Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility. ~

James Montgomery

~ Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well. ~

Abbe Yeux-verdi

~ Humility is at the equilibrium of ego. When we’re on center, we manage our ego rather than it managing use. ~

Steve Smith

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