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18 quotations available on Humbleness category

"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." -- Don Herold "Humility is the acceptance of the place appointed by God, whether it be in the front or in the rear." -- Anonymous "It is the laden bough that hangs low, and the most fruitful person who is the most humble." -- Anonymous "A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest." -- Havelock Ellis "Some glances of real beauty may be seen in the faces of those who dwell in true meekness." -- Henry David Thoreau "Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right." -- Ezra Taft Benson "He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has." -- Epictetus "Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom." -- William Penn "To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart." -- Pearl S. Buck "I praise loudly; I blame softly." -- Catherine the Second "Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false." -- Bertrand Russell "The humility of heart doesn't demand that you humble, but that you open up. This is the key of the changes." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then by finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." -- Isaac Newton "Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life." -- George Arliss "Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate." -- Seneca "It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment." -- St. Bernard, 1090-1153, French Theologian and Reformer "It's no use to boast of any thing until it's done, nor then, either, for it speaks for itself." -- John Greenleaf Whittier "Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less." -- Ken Blanchard