Humility is not about making ourselves small; it is about seeing clearly — the truth of who we are, how much we owe to others, and how deeply we are connected. As Franz Kafka observed: “Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.”

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us. ~ Tryon Edwards

There ain't never a horse that never been rode; there ain't never a rider that can't be thrown. ~ Gary Cooper

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ~ George Arliss

Humility is the first of virtues for other people. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Writings

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. ~ T. S. Eliot

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. ~ Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder), Wisdom Writers Around the World

Don’t be so humble. You’re not that great. ~ Golda Meir, Deborah, Golda, and Me

Humility is the mother of giants. ~ G. K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

Humility is strong, not bold; quiet, not speechless; sure, not arrogant. ~ Estelle Smith, Leading from the Lions’ Den

Humility is to make the right estimation of one’s self. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Sermons Volume 2: 1856

Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servants, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity. ~ John Selden

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower, Guildhall Speech

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. ~ William Jennings Bryan, Speeches of William Jennings Bryan

Have more humility. Remember you don’t know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life — and maybe even please a few strangers. ~ A. L. Kennedy

We cannot think too highly of nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. ~ Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words

A great man is always willing to be little. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

Stay humble. Always answer your phone no matter who else is in the car. ~ Jack Lemmon

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness have always kept me good company. ~ Pope John XXIII