humility Quotes

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.