Jeremy Taylor Quotes

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

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

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

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

What is modesty but inverted pride?

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

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

Be modest, be humble, be simple.

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

Humility is that simple, inner life of real greatness, which is indifferent to magnificence, and, surrounded by it all, lives far away in the distant country of a Father's home, with the cross borne silently and self-sacrificingly in the heart of hearts.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Humble things become the humble.

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.

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.

I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.

Being humbled has been a part of my life for a long time.

My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

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.

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

Humility has the toughest hide.