Being humble and having true inner humility can be more beneficial to your life than you could ever imagine. Next time you’re looking for external validation from boasting, read through these humble quotes to feel empowered, confident and at ease.
Humble Quotes
“I feel like being true to yourself is always going to keep you humble; it’s always going to make you remember who you are.” – Lil Tjay
“There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.” – Saint Augustine
“Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.” – Blaise Pascal
“Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.” – Confucius
“Without humility, there can be no humanity.” – John Buchan
“There’s no need to show off when you know who you are.” – Maxime Lagacé
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi
“You shouldn’t gloat about anything you’ve done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do.” – David Packard
“Learning is a feeling between humility and simplicity.” – Alan Maiccon
“Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually the most ambitious and envious.” – Baruch Spinoza
“To lead the people, walk behind them.” – Lao Tzu
“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.” – Diogenes
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.” – Miyamoto Musashi
“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.” – Alexander Pope
“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” – Dr. Paul Farmer
“Making mistakes isn’t enough to become great. You must also admit the mistake, and then learn how to turn that mistake into an advantage.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki
“Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.” – Nicole Nielsen Horanyi
“All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.” – Lao Tzu
“Be simple, stay humble, care with love, hug with kindness.” – Debasish Mridha
“In reality, humility means nothing other than complete honesty about yourself.” – William Countryman
“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.” – Charles Caleb Colton
“Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
“It is better to be humble and happy than to be arrogant and lonely.” – Darlene Bennett
“Without patience, there can be no genius.” – Robin Sharma
“If pain doesn’t lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.” – Katerina Stoykova Klemer
“Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.” – Angela of Foligno
“Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.” – Joyce Meyer
“Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.” – T. S. Eliot
“Humility is the foundation by which love manifests.” – Radhanath Swami
“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.” – Thomas Merton
“Stay humble. Always answer your phone – no matter who else is in the car.” – Jack Lemmon
“Every day I feel humble when I experience the vibrational essence of my world.” – Debbie A. Anderson
“Pride is the problem, humility is the answer.” – Joyce Meyer
“Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.” – Simone Weil
“A great man is always willing to be little.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.” – Jesse Jackson
“Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come.” – Mark McMorris
“What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.” – Albert Einstein
“There is beauty and humility in imperfection.” – Guillermo del Toro
“Humility isn’t denying your strengths; it’s being honest about your weaknesses.” – Rick Warren
“My aim is just to remain as humble and as godly as I can be.” – Letitia Wright
“A wise man is humble, knowing he actually doesn’t know much.” – Eraldo Banovac
“Pride is concerned with who is right while humility is concerned with what is right.” – Ezra Taft Benson
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” – Socrates
“Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.” – John Madden
“We are all stumblers, and the beauty and meaning of life are in the stumbling.” – David Brooks
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” – Albert Einstein
“Humility, like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Stay true in the dark and humble in the spotlight.” – Harold B. Lee
“Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.” – Oliver Herford
“The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.” – Criss Jami
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.” – C. S. Lewis
“Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.” – Jerry Seinfeld
“We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.” – Tim Tebow
“There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
“Humility is the surest sign of strength.” – Thomas Merton
“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.” – Mother Teresa
“Humility will open more doors than arrogance ever will.” – Zig Ziglar
“One may be humble out of pride.” – Michel de Montaigne
“I am able to stay humble because I recognize that God has truly blessed me; I can’t say that enough.” – Heather Headley
“If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.” – Mike Tyson
“The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Be humble, hungry and the hardest worker in the room.” – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
“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
“Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.” – Saint Vincent de Paul
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