humility Quotes

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.