If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

1.    Humility is greatness in plain clothes ~Spencer W. Kimball

2.    A great leader needs to love and respect people, and he needs to be comfortable with himself and with the world. He also needs to be able to forgive himself and others. In other words, a leader needs grace. ~Leo Hindery Jr

3.    A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. ~Benjamin Franklin

4.     After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser. ~Benjamin Franklin

5.    Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ~Dwight Morrow

6.     Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. ~Matthew 5:5

7.    Blushing is the color of virtue. ~Diogenes

8.    Do not waste a minute, not a second in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it. ~Thomas Higginson

9.    Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. ~Wilson Mizner

10.  Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ~Frank Leahy

11.  Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ~Adlai Stevenson

12.   Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence. ~Robert A. Millikan

13.  Glory is largely a theatrical concept.  There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ~Eric Hoffer

14.  He who sacrifices a whole offering shall be rewarded for a whole offering; he who offers a burnt-offering shall have the reward of a burnt-offering; but he who offers humility to God and man shall be rewarded with a reward as if he had offered all the sacrifices in the world. ~The Talmud

15.  Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all. ~William Temple

16.  Humility is at the equilibrium of ego. When we’re on center, we manage our ego rather than it managing us. ~Steve Smith

17.  Humility is royalty without a crown. ~Spencer W. Kimball

18.  Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ~George Arliss

19.  Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. ~Charles H. Spurgeon

20.  Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them. ~John J. McCloy

21.  I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.  ~James McNeill Whistler

22.  I don’t like offending people, and it’s easy to offend people when you don’t know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect. ~Seth Godin

23.  I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. ~Lao-Tzu

24.  I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

25.  If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.  ~Welsh Proverb

26.  If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.  ~Ted Turner

27.  If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, so it is believed of none but by itself; the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail nor reason. ~Francis Quarles

28.  If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned. ~Thomas à Kempis

29.  If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much. ~Leighton

30.  In a humble state, you learn better. I can't find anything else very exciting about humility, but at least there's that. ~John Dooner

31.  In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.  ~J. Petit-Senn

32.  It is always the secure who are humble.  ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

33.  It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.  ~Author Unknown

34.  It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.  ~Niccolo Machiavelli

35.  It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) that it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless competitor for it flatters and nourishes our weaknesses and lulls us into complacency. We bask in the sunshine of accomplishment and lose the spirit of humility which helps us visualize all the factors which have contributed to our success. We are apt to forget that we are only one of a team, that in unity there is strength and that we are strong only as long as each unit in our organization functions with precision. ~Samuel Tilden

36.  It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.  ~Andrew J. Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses

37.  It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say I don't know!   ~Somerset Maugham

38.  Life is a long lesson in humility. ~James M. Barrie

39.  Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.  ~Peter Marshall

40.  Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels.

41.  Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.  ~Oliver Herford

42.  Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates.  He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.  ~William Hazlitt

43.  Modesty:  The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are.  ~Source Unknown

44.  Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

45.  Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.  ~William Safire

46.  None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.  ~Benjamin Whichcote

47.  Our ego hinders our ability to influence more than anything else under our control. ~Michael McKinney

48.   Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. ~La Rochefoucauld

49.   Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right. ~Ezra Taft Benson

50.   Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. ~William Penn

51.  Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.  ~Barry Switzer

52.  Some persons are always ready to level those above them down to themselves, while they are never willing to level those below them up to their own position. But he that is under the influence of true humility will avoid both these extremes. On the the one hand, he will be willing that all should rise just so far as their diligence and worth of character entitle them to; and on the other hand, he will be willing that his superiors should be known and acknowledged in their place, and have rendered to them all the honors that are their due. ~Jonathan Edwards

53.  Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening!  ~Author Unknown

54.  Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

55.  The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground. ~Bishop Reynolds

56.  Humility: the grace which makes every other grace amiable. ~Alfred Mercier

57.  The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded.  ~Hasidic Saying

58.  The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. ~St. Augustine

59.  The way to get things done is not to mind who get the credit for doing them. ~Benjamin Jowett

60.  There are two kinds of egotists:  Those who admit it, and the rest of us.  ~Laurence J. Peter

61.  There’s no limit to what can be achieved when you don’t care who gets the credit. ~Unknown

62.  To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it.  ~Charles Neaves

63.  Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.  ~Malcolm S. Forbes

64.  True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us. Tryon Edwards

65.  True humility—the basis of the Christian system—is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. ~Edmund Burke

66.  True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.  ~Edward Frederick Halifax

67.  We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.  ~Winston Churchill

68.  We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ~Rabindranath Tagore

69.  We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

70.  Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.  ~Lord Chesterfield

71.  What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.  ~Abraham Lincoln

72.  When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.  ~Bernard Baily

73.  When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.  ~Mary H. Waldrip

74.   When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it. ~Unknown

75.  With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.  ~Arthur Schopenhauer

76.  You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do.  ~David Packard