Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 45 Humility quotesHumility QuotesHumility Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.~ Franz Kafka I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.~ Helen Keller Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.~ Thomas Kempis Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.~ Michael Kinsley The road to hell is paved with good intentions.~ Late 16th Century Proverb I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.~ Martin Luther Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.~ H. L. Mencken Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.~ John Stuart Mill Better to dwell in freedom's hall, With a cold damp floor and mouldering wall, Than bow the head and bend the knee In the proudest palace of slaverie.~ Thomas Moore The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life.~ Huey P. Newton Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!~ Alexander Pope Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.~ Marcus Fabius Quintilianus To have freedom is only to have that which is absolutely necessary to enable us to be what we ought to be, and to possess what we ought to possess.~ Ibn Rahel There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit.~ Ronald Reagan It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.~ Will Rogers Don't ask for what you'll wish you hadn't got.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca We are all chained to fortune: the chain of one is made of gold, and wide, while that of another is short and rusty. But what difference does it make? The same prison surrounds all of us, and even those who have bound others are bound themselves; unless perchance you think that a chain on the left side is lighter. Honors bind one man, wealth another; nobility oppresses some, humility others; some are held in subjection by an external power, while others obey the tyrant within; banishments keep some in one place, the priesthood others. All life is slavery. Therefore each one must accustom himself to his own condition and complain about it as little as possible, and lay hold of whatever good is to be found near him. Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. Small tablets, because of the writer's skill, have often served for many purposes, and a clever arrangement has often made a very narrow piece of land habitable. Apply reason to difficulties; harsh circumstances can be softened, narrow limits can be widened, and burdensome things can be made to press less severely on those who bear them cleverly.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca What," say you, "are you giving me advice? Indeed, have you already advised yourself, already corrected your own faults? Is this the reason why you have leisure to reform other men?" No, I am not so shameless as to undertake to cure my fellow-men when I am ill myself. I am, however, discussing with you troubles which concern us both, and sharing the remedy with you, just as if we were lying ill in the same hospital.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.~ William Shakespeare Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print