If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. – Francis Quarles

Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. – Wilson Mizner

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. – Camille Pissarro

‘Umble we are, ‘umble we have been, ‘umble we shall ever be. – Charles Dickens

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. – Alexander Pope

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

One may be humble out of pride. – Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. – Sigmund Freud

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. – Helen Keller

Modesty is the citadel of beauty. – Demades

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

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

Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale. – Adlai Stevenson

Don’t look for more honor than your learning merits. – Jewish Proverb

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

When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble. – Muhammad Ali

A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning. – Thomas a’Kempis

A person can achieve everything by being simple and humble. – Rig Veda

Blushing is the color of virtue. – Diogenes

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled. – Samuel Richardson

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

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. – Alexander Pope

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

Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. – Nicholai Velimirovic

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

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