It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble
Source: Emma (1815)
Topic
Humility is the long education of seeing oneself accurately. In these quotes, humility is not humiliation, timidity, or denial of gifts. It is the disciplined awareness that learning remains necessary, dependence is real, and pride often sees least clearly when it feels most certain. Some lines describe life itself as a lesson in humility, suggesting that time, failure, age, and relationship all correct inflated self judgment. Others praise the student who approaches instruction without pretense. Across the collection, humility becomes a condition for growth. A proud person defends image; a humble person can receive correction and improve. Humility also protects relationships because it leaves room for gratitude, apology, and wonder. Read these quotes when confidence needs grounding, and let them help you stand firmly without pretending to be larger than truth. Let humility become strength under correction, so truth can improve you without needing to defeat you first in daily life.
It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity, that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
God, who truly knows me, knows that I am nothing.