humility Quotes

“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“A great man is always willing to be little.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

topic:greatness humility

“The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:work humility satisfaction

“I speak to you as just another human being; as a simple monk.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

topic:humanity humility

“Any man who has met with success, if he will be frank with himself, must admit that there has been a big element of fortune in the success.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

topic:success humility

“If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.”

― Confucius, Analects

topic:humility worth

“As long as your own personality is what you are bothering about you are not going to Him at all. The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:self God humility

“Ah, does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

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