Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.

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

Humility has the toughest hide.

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

Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.

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.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

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.

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.

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

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

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

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

I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.