graceful humility Quotes

True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

Humility is royalty without a crown.

I think I've been a good boy long enough and given everyone around me a fair piece of the pie as far as all of the fleeting glory and reward that comes from the heavens - or the music press, whatever you want to call it.

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.

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.

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.

Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.

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

We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.

Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.