- “Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.”
– Saint Augustine (354 – 430)
- “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
– Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727)
- “To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.”
- “Humility makes great men twice honorable.”
– Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
- “As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.”
– Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745)
- “Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.”
— Charles Spurgeon (1834– 1892)
- "We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm."
– Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
