Jim Rohn Quotes

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

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

Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man can be humble and courageous.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Modesty is my best quality.

There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

... a modest man. He has every reason to be modest.

I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.

Modesty isn't one of my strong suits.

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 has the toughest hide.

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

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else.

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

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.