A Quote by C. S. Lewis

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis
British - Writer
November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963

False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.

Tony Dungy

One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.

Sri Chinmoy

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

Peter Kreeft

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

Joseph Addison

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Paulo Coelho

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Thomas Keating

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

C. S. Lewis

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Harriet Martineau

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Eckhart Tolle

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Paulo Coelho

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

Joseph Addison

Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.

Arthur Dobrin

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Arthur Helps

False humility is more insulting than open pride!

Brandon Mull

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.

Dag Hammarskjold

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

Jean de la Bruyere

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