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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Life is a long lesson in humility. (Quote by - James M. Barrie)

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings. (Quote by - Welsh Proverb)

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. (Quote by - Eric Hoffe)

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)

Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. (Quote by - St. John Chrysostom)

To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it. (Quote by - Charles Neaves)

When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. (Quote by - Bernard Baily)

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Without humility there can be no humanity. (Quote by - John Buchan)

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. (Quote by - Oliver Herford)

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. (Quote by - Rick Warren)

Show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person (Quote by - Nikki Giovanni)

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces (Quote by - William Gurnall)

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)

It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know!" (Quote by - Somerset Maugham)

True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

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. (Quote by - Ken Auletta)

The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded. (Quote by - Hasidic Saying)

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. (Quote by - Barry Switzer)

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. (Quote by - James McNeill Whistler)

Humility is eldest-born of Virtue, and claims the birthright at the throne of heaven. (Quote by - Arthur Murphy)

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

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