humility Quotes

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.