Maya Angelou Quotes

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Humility is the most beautiful virtue that we can develop.

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

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

I know it's important to stay humble.

You don't have to be humbled to be humble.

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

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

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

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

Kindness and humbleness are really good qualities to possess. But, if you have to use the word humble, it means you're not humble. And if you're not humble to this world, this world will thrust humbleness upon you.

Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

I think we were always humble.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Being humble matters.

Work at being a humble person.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

Only humility can take you places.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Self-deprecation is not the answer to humility.