Humility Quotes

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever cha...

The humble woman is surprised by all the good that she sees around her rather than scandalized by wh...

The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that ev...

Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swi...

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get a...

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it prove...

Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those th...

The pretence leads up to the real thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you...

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people...

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he...

Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowada...

. . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank,...

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formi...

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...

We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God’s feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes ...

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself,...

I call this a Divine Humility because it is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship i...

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our plea...

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formi...

We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doi...

I believe this not in the sense that it is part of my creed, but in the sense that it is one of my o...

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality...

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever t...

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. ...

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no...

Look out how you use proud words.When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.They ...

I write poetry, worry, smile,laughsleepcontinue for a whilejust like most of usjust like all of us;s...

I write poetry, worry, smile,laughsleepcontinue for a whilejust like most of usjust like all of us;s...

'Umble we are 'umble we have been 'umble we shall ever be.

I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere with the punctual discharge of my newsp...

He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.

Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

Weel, ma´am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha´finished off, I mun quit ...

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, Jo...

Think not that humility is weakness it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and c...

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; w...

He that is low need fear no fall.

People often told him how humble he was, but they did not mean real humility, it was merely that he ...

Give me the lowest place: not that I dareAsk for that lowest place, but Thou hast diedThat I might l...

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian pligh...

Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions ...

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or un...

There is not, in a material sense, any benefit to being right about a future you will not experience...

To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive ...

LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enou...

Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fa...

To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independe...

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

I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud.

They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don’t need to pr...

People who are humble about their own nature are moral realists. Moral realists are aware that we ar...

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to ...

Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life fo...

Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the in...

there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ec...

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it i...

A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other...

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need...

There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let dow...

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life wo...

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph...

That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and ...

Years later, after other experiences with dogs, I wondered if their species were shaped and charmed ...

Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we ta...

Humility is truth.

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish com...

One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. On...

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord wh...

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ev...

If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of ...

There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we kn...

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simpli...

I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not th...

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers...

A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other grac...

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a gre...

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility aris...

To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firm...

A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help...

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he kne...

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement. We can choose to humble our...

We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming th...

Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his mediu...

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

What each man is in Your eyes, thus he is, and no more.

Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was t...

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I d...

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arr...

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former...

A high school student wrote to ask, "What was the greatest event in American history?" I can't say. ...

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless ...

Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him...

The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Bab...

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as ou...