Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

I'm not boisterous. I just let the work speak for itself.

I am a humble person.

I'm a very humble guy.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.

Humility is the surest sign of strength.

Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

I know, it's amazing, but I never feel like I have done anything. When people say that, it makes me uncomfortable because I'm not that kind of person. I just go out there and try to do my job.

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

Being humble is cooler than being famous.

Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

I'm a humble guy, okay?

I don't do proud.

I'm not one who likes to be honored, to be honest with you. That's never been who I am.

My father always shied away from attention. Whenever he'd get a compliment, he'd downplay it.

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.