Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

My strength is my humility. When you are humble, people like you.

Modesty isn't one of my strong suits.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

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.

What is modesty but inverted pride?

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

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

Modesty is my best quality.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

I guess I'm reasonably confident in all honesty. But I definitely don't think I'm arrogant. I'm pretty down to earth, I mean I'm genuinely down to earth.

I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.