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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)

He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility! And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity. (Quote by - John Selden)

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues. (Quote by - Confucius)

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going let the other be where he may. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Humble things become the humble. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected. (Quote by - William Safire)

I am no more humble than my talents require. (Quote by - Oscar Levant)

There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you. (Quote by - A. Whitney Brown)

You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do. (Quote by - David Packard)

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. (Quote by - Dwight Morrow)

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. (Quote by - Fran ois)

Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - Charles Hadden Spurgeon)

One may be humble out of pride. (Quote by - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne)

Humility makes great men twice honorable (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility. (Quote by - John Keble)

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility. (Quote by - Lord Lytton)

Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility. (Quote by - James Montgomery)

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. (Quote by - Malcolm S. Forbes)

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

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