Definition of Humility

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Humility

The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.

An act of submission or courtesy.

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Humility Quotations

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
Yogi Berra

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mohandas Gandhi

If I had any humility I would be perfect.
Ted Turner

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
Ted Turner

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Jonathan Swift

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine

Humility Translations

humility in Dutch is ootmoed, deemoed, nederigheid
humility in German is Bescheidenheit, Demut
humility in Norwegian is ydmykhet
humility in Spanish is humildad

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