<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Humility - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20033]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.   - Charles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20036]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20038]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20041]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20021]]></link><description><![CDATA['Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20022]]></link><description><![CDATA[show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20024]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all,  Unless he first will learn humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20025]]></link><description><![CDATA[O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all,  Unless he first will learn humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may be humble out of pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20027]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may be humble out of pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not born for Courts or great affairs; I pay my debts, believe, and say my pray'rs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20017]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility!  And the Devil did grin, for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20019]]></link><description><![CDATA[He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility!  And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin   Is pride that apes humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he may.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20014]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14146]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10434]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4929]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/832</guid></item></channel></rss>