Explore 'Humility'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

Jean de la Bruyere

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

Jean Tirole

You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.

Frank McCourt

Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we’re doing anonymously.

Jay Leno

COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.

Ambrose Bierce

Players recognize the sense of humility that comes with the cap and with wearing the cap.

Len Pascoe

It’s so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.

Arthur Hiller

The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don’t know they are.

Kathy Griffin

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Mark Twain

Leaders don’t look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.

Simon Sinek

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Nicolas Caussin

You can’t act like you’ve arrived when you’re only just receiving the invitation.

Sophia Amoruso

I’d forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.

Steven Moffat

Don’t worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.

Confucius

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

Pliny the Younger

The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.

Indira Gandhi

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Benjamin Franklin

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

Bernard of Clairvaux

It is superfluous to be humble on one’s own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.

Celia Green

Sometimes people forget their own greatness.

Jason Mraz

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Self praise is no praise at all.

Lord Byron

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