Saint Augustine Quotes

Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'

Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

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

Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness.

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

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

Only humility can take you places.

The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.

I was raised to always be humble.

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

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

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 practise, and yet every body is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

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

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

Humility is not a part of devotional service, it is the heart of devotional service.