Humility Sayings and Quotes
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Humility quotes, Humility sayings, and Humility proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
A day is lost if one has not laughed. -- French (on the conduct of life)
A friend in need is a friend indeed. -- James Ray (1678)
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
A man's house is his castle. -- Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634)
A place for everything and everything in its place. -- Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)
A smile is a window in your face to show your heart is at home. -- unknown (submitted by fubar@nque.com)
A trouble shared is a trouble halved. -- unknown
All of us, the great and the little have need of each other. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Any port in a storm. -- unknown
As the day lengthens, the cold strengthens. -- E. Pellham (1631)
As the spokes of a wheel are attached to the hub, so all things are attached to life. -- Sanskrit (on life and living)
Bread, oil, Salt and Heart -- Albanian ( on honoring the guest) thanks to kravetsmaksim
Bury the hatchet beneath the root of the tree. -- Native American Saying (on war and peace)
Character building begins in infancy and continues until death. -- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Cold hands, warm heart. -- V.S. Lean (1903)
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Curses like chickens, come home to roost. -- Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. -- Bible
Don't bypass a town where there's a friend. -- Malagasy (on journeys)
Don't let the grass grow on the path of friendship. -- Blackfoot (Native American) (on friendship)
Eat coconuts while you have teeth. -- Singhalese (on youth and age)
Every day of your life is a page of your history. -- Arabic (on life and living)
Everyone wants to live long but no one wants to be called old. -- Icelandic (on youth and age)
Fact is stranger than fiction. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865)
Follow your dreams. -- unknown
For every bow there is an arrow. (For everyone there is someone.) -- unknown
Glass, china and reputation are easily crack'd and never well mended. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Good memories are our second chance at happiness. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Great oaks from little acorns grow. -- Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
He lives long who lives well. -- J. Wilson (1553)
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. -- Phillip Massinger (1583-1640)
Hold fast to the words of your ancestors. -- Maori (on proverbs)
Honor is better than honors. -- Flemish (on the conduct of life)
In time we hate that which we often fear. -- Seneca (8 BC-AD 65)
Industry pays debts, despair encreases them. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
It takes all kinds to make a world go round. -- T. Shelton
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and you cry alone. -- Horace (65-8 BC)
Laugh every day; it's like inner jogging. -- unknown
Laughter is the best medicine. -- unknown<
Life has its little ups and downs. -- unknown
Life is one big experiment. -- unknown
Life is short and full of blisters. -- African-American (on life and living)
Life is the greatest bargain; we get it for nothing. -- Yiddish (on life and living)
Life is too short to waste. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Make a meal and contention will cease. -- Hebrew (on the human comedy)
May the outward and inward man be at one. -- Socrates (469-399 BC)
No one is good at everything but everyone is good at something. -- unknown
Nothing goes on forever. -- unknown
Observe all men; thyself most. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
One hand washes the other. -- Epicharmus (273 AD)
People are architects of their own fortune. -- Spanish (on fortune)
Praise the young and they will blossom. -- Irish Proverb
Small children give you a headache, big children a heartache. -- Russian Proverb
Spring is in the air. -- unknown
Take life as it comes. -- unknown
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
The best things in life are free. -- B.G. DeSilva (1927)
The company makes the feast. -- J. Warton (1653)
The discontented man finds no easy chair. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
The easiest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your pocket. -- unknown, courtesy of T. Ghataurhae of England
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. -- Edward John Phelps (1822-1900)
The memories of youth make for long, long thoughts. -- Lapp (on youth and age)
The mind is willing, but the flesh is weak. -- Bible
The old one who is loved, is winter with flowers. -- German (on youth and age)
The person sins, then blames Satan for it. -- Afghan (on the human comedy)
The stargazer's toe is often stubbed. -- Russian (on the human comedy)
The worst prison is a closed heart. -- Pope John Paul II
Vices are their own punishment. -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
We'll never know the worth of water 'till the well goes dry. -- Scottish Proverb
When the apple is ripe it will fall. -- Irish Proverb
When the tiger kills, the jackel profits. -- Afghan (on business)
Where is there a tree not shaken by the wind. -- Armenian (on basic truths)
While the cat's away, the mice will play. -- James Ray (1670)
Who are a little wise, the best fools be. -- John Donne (1573-1631)
You cannot carve rotten wood. -- Chinese
You can't teach an old dog new tricks. -- unknown
You can't win them all. -- unknown
You may delay but time will not. -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Your success and happiness lie in you...resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. -- Helen Keller