humility Quotes

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.