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Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Too humble is half proud.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Modesty is the beauty of women.
-Scottish Proverb
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Too much humility is pride.
-Proverb
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
-Joseph Addison
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
-Joseph Addison
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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
-Louisa May Alcott
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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
-Muhammad Ali
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Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
-George Arliss
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Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.
-Ernest Moritz Arndt
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
-Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, ch. 10 (the character Darcy), 1813
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What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
-Monica Baldwin
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
-Honore de Balzac
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If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.
-P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
-Bruce Barton
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Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
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It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
-St. Bernard
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
-Aneurin Bevan
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Before honor is humility.
-Bible
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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Philippians 2:3
-Bible
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The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
-Josh Billings
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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
-Rabino Nilton Bonder
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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Without humility there can be no humanity.
-John Buchan
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She just wore enough for modesty; no more!
-Robert Buchanan
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Books about Humility
