Definition of humility

"humility" in the noun sense

1. humility, humbleness

a disposition to be humble a lack of false pride

"not everyone regards humility as a virtue"

2. humility, humbleness

a humble feeling

"he was filled with humility at the sight of the Pope"

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Quotations for humility

Highest when it stoops. [ Pollok ]

Before honour is humility. [ Bible ]

Humble things become the humble. [ Horace ]

Modest humility is beauty's crown. [ Schiller ]

Do not practice excessive humility. [ Dr. John Todd ]

Humility is the hall-mark of wisdom. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Love's humility is love's true pride. [ Bayard Taylor ]

My favored temple is an humble heart. [ Bailey ]

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

The most essential point is lowliness. [ Fenelon ]

Content thyself to live obscurely good. [ Addison ]

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates. [ Franklin ]

Some people are proud of their humility. [ Beecher ]

Humility disarms envy and strikes it dead. [ Collier ]

There is no true holiness without humility. [ Proverb ]

Humbleness is always grace, always dignity. [ Lowell ]

True love is the parent of a noble humility. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Flattery displays a braver flag than humility. [ Proverb ]

The street is full of humiliations to the proud. [ Emerson ]

To be vain is rather a mark of humility than pride. [ Swift ]

Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues. [ Confucius ]

After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. [ Franklin ]

Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. [ Thoreau ]

Humility is the first of the virtues for other people. [ Holmes ]

Humility will exalt you, though sheepishness will not. [ Proverb ]

It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride. [ Proverb ]

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. [ Bible ]

There is much proud humility and humble pride in the world. [ J. L. Basford ]

Pride perceiving humility honorable often borrows her cloak. [ Proverb ]

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. [ Burton ]

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility. [ John Ruskin ]

It is pride in fashion, that puts humility out of countenance. [ Proverb ]

By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, honor, and life. [ Bible ]

It is not humility, but sordidness, to be regardless of true honour. [ Proverb ]

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. [ Spurgeon ]

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. [ Colton ]

Humility - that low, sweet root from which all heavenly virtues shoot. [ Moore ]

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. [ Kant ]

Repentance is a magistrate that exacts the strictest duty and humility. [ Clarendon ]

Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to supplant others. [ La Roche ]

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate. [ Jane Porter ]

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Want of humility or self-denial is simply the want of all religion, of all moral worth. [ Carlyle ]

Be very sure that no man will learn any thing at all unless he first will learn humility. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

Zeal without humility is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. [ Feltham ]

The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him. [ Charles Hodge ]

Humility is a virtue of so general, so exceeding good influence, that we can scarce purchase it too dear. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as king's palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees. [ Daniel Webster ]

The greatest friend of Truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence. [ Lavater ]

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith: and seek not at any time the fame of being learned. [ Thomas a Kempis ]

The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. [ Saadi ]

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it. [ Izaac Walton ]

Gruel men are the greatest lovers of mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in others, not in themselves. [ Colton ]

A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious. [ Addison ]

Heaven must scorn the humility which we telegraph thither by genuflection; it must prefer the manliness that stands by all created gifts, and looks itself in the face without pretense of worship. [ John Weiss ]

Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning humility, and virtue; - that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy. [ Sterne ]

Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced. [ Bishop Hall ]

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble. The proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none. By itself, the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. [ Enchiridion ]

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation. [ Coleridge ]

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]

humility in Scrabble®

The word humility is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters humility:

HUMILITY
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Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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humility in Words With Friends™

The word humility is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 17

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters humility:

HUMILITY
(126)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

lithium

 

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Words within the letters of humility

2 letter words in humility (6 words)

3 letter words in humility (8 words)

4 letter words in humility (3 words)

5 letter words in humility (3 words)

7 letter words in humility (1 word)

8 letter words in humility (1 word)

Words containing the sequence humility

Words that start with humility (1 word)

Words with humility in them (1 word)

Words that end with humility (1 word)

Word Growth involving humility

Shorter words in humility

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Longer words containing humility

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