Proverbs

While browsing the internet few days ago I was fascinated by few articles I read about the inspirational quotes by famous leaders, authors, poets, etc. This was about humility. Humility is the quality or state of being humble according to Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

Synonyms: demureness, down-to-earthiness, humbleness, lowliness, meekness, modesty

Antonyms: arrogance, assumption, bumptiousness, conceit, egoism, egotism, haughtiness, hauteur, huffiness, imperiousness, loftiness, lordliness, peremptoriness, pomposity, pompousness, presumptuousness, pretense, pretentiousness, pride, superiority

A humble person is generally thought to be unpretentious and modest: someone who does not think that he or she is better or more important than others. Humility quotes teach the people how to be humble and down to earth in their lives so that they can love and respect the mutual existence of others as well.

1. Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows by Helen Nielsen.

2. The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich by Saadi.

3. He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good by Confucius.

4. The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue by Confucius.

5. The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions by Confucius.

6. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins by Alexander Pope.

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

8. Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble by François Duc de La Rochefoucauld.

9. 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 by Charles Hadden Spurgeon.

10. The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden by Jerry Van Amerongen.

11. One may be humble out of pride by Michael Eyquen de Montaigne

12. Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot by Thomas Moore.